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 Jason Lervold | Jan 5, 2016 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
2015 has ended, which means 2016 has started. Happy New Year everyone! One thing we learned in 2015 is that we have not learned from history. Remember the late 1990s to the early 2000s when 2.5” HDD pricing for notebooks pretty much took a nose dive? It was great for...
by Jason Lervold | Dec 7, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
We are reading more and more about how SSD pricing continues to drop and subsequent attach rates for notebook PCs continue to rise. It has been a wild ride to see how aggressive some pricing has been over the past year, favoring the rise of SSD attach rates with each...
by Mark Geenen | Nov 17, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
Notebook production was down in October, but primary because of the factory shutdown due to Chinese national holiday and not because PC demand softened. However, Windows 10 PC system sales have been sluggish to date, and unless there is a miraculous December finish,...
by Jason Lervold | Aug 3, 2015 | TRENDFOCUS Blog
A colleague of mine brought up a great argument for why 500 GB Hard Disk Drives can remain the storage device of choice for most college students. In essence, it’s not the student’s choice, but rather the parent’s choice. Let’s think this through for a moment…. As...
