by John Chen | Jul 21, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
By now, it is no surprise that the HDD market has suffered at the hands of very weak demand for PCs. Compounding the lack of consumer PC purchasing is a major transition in Windows OS, with Windows 10 releasing on July 29. No OEM in its right mind wants to blow out...
by Jason Lervold | Jul 8, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
I tried to think back in the recent past to see when the storage industry made an immediate shift to a new interface or form factor, along with the reasons behind it. I was able to come up with one, very definite example – Parallel ATA (PATA) to Serial ATA (SATA) in...
by Mark Geenen | Jun 22, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Many of the facets of Chromebook are similar to netbooks such as low price, slower CPU, and small storage capacity, but certain differentiating aspects make Chromebooks potentially more legitimate notebook substitutes compared to the netbooks of seven years ago. With...
by John Chen | Jun 11, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
In the five years since Apple’s original iPad was released, the tablet market has posted remarkable growth, followed by a subsequent split between high-end tablets typified by Apple’s offering and masses of low cost models from nearly every OEM and white box PC...
by Don Jeanette | Jun 2, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
SAS Hard Disk Drives made their way to the market back in 2004. It has been 11 years and these storage devices have, and continue to see a healthy product life cycle. SAS HDDs are seen in multiple segments of the market, including Nearline, 10KRPM, and 15KRPM....
by Mark Geenen | May 29, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
In early May, TRENDFOCUS released various quarterly reports, which reviews the HDD and SSD industries’ performance in CQ1 ’15, and what effect it has on the updated quarterly forecast. Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) saw a sharp decline to 125M units sold, mainly due to the...
