by Mark Geenen | Mar 21, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Just recently, there was a white paper authored by Google staff titled “Disks for Data Centers”. In it, the authors called for a new HDD form factor that meets five key criteria. In summary, the paper questions the current HDD form factor and how changing some key...
by Mark Geenen | Feb 23, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
HDD unit shipments dipped below 115 million in the fourth calendar quarter of 2015 due to weak PC sales and impact of SSD incursion in notebook computers. For the year, HDD sales were down 16.9% to 469 million units according to TRENDFOCUS’ CQ4 HDD Market Update....
by Mark Geenen | Feb 22, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Notebook production by the top five ODMs were just released (slightly late due to the Lunar New Year holiday), and January’s totals were the lowest since TRENDFOCUS started tracking ODM output back in 2010. January’s volumes plummeted over 30% sequentially, and given...
by John Chen | Jan 20, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
While Seagate has been shipping HDDs with shingle magnetic recording (SMR) for a number of years in its external HDD products, 2016 is shaping up to be the year when the industry as a whole announces and ships mainstream OEM HDDs using the capacity boosting...
by Mark Geenen | Jan 14, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Pending Q4’15 actual shipments, we could see in increase closer to 40% for 2015 vs. 2014. Samsung alone could potentially post an impressive 50%+ increase last year to lead all suppliers. Unfortunately, NAND prices have tracked a super aggressive take down curve,...