Hitachi GST HDD shipments to double this year. hitachi gst hdd shipments to double this year. Hitachi Global Storage Technology (Hitachi GST) expects its 2005 sales volume of 1" microdrives (miniature HDDs or small-form-factor HDDs) to grow by more than 200 percent, while its 1.8" model sales should grow 300 percent from last year. Hitachi Global Storage Technology (Hitachi GST) expects its 2005 sales volume of 1" microdrives (miniature HDDs or small-form-factor HDDs) to grow by more than 200 percent, while its 1.8" model sales should grow 300 percent from last year....

Hard drives go mobile: Q&A with Hitachi GST. hard drives go mobile q....

Hitachi GST to start volume shipments of Mikey microdrives in 4Q. hitachi gst to start volume shipments of mikey microdrives in 4q. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) is expected to start volume shipments of its new-generation of microdrives, codenamed Mikey, in the fourth quarter of this year, according to Morse Chen, general manager for Hitachi GST Taiwan and Shanghai. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) is expected to start volume shipments of its new-generation of microdrives, codenamed Mikey, in the fourth quarter of this year, according to Morse Chen, general manager for Hitachi GST Taiwan and Shanghai....

Hitachi GST extends 1 TB hard drive to the enterprise market. hitachi gst offer 1tb hard drive to enterprise. In the 2.5" drive market for blade servers, Hitachi GST offers Ultrastar C10K147 with up to 147 GB storage space and a 3 Gb/s SAS interface. According to Hitachi GST, the Ultrastar 15K300 is available now with production quantities available in the first week of May 2007....

On the other end, Hitachi GST and Toshiba had to give up market shares and had to deal with declining shipments. Hitachi GST, the world’s third largest hard drive manufacturer, dropped from 16.2 to 14.2% and sold 14.7 million drives - 2 million less than in Q4. Toshiba dropped from 10.0 to 9.3% with shipments declining from 10.3 million units to 9.5 million....

The firm said today that Hiroaki Nakanishi, chairman and chief executive officer of Hitachi GST, will resign from his current positions of executive vice president and executive officer of Hitachi and chief executive officer of Hitachi North America. Nakanishi will be solely focusing on Hitachi GST in the future, the company said....

There are only six major hard drive manufacturers left (Seagate, WD, Hitachi GST, Samsung, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Excelstor) and these companies apparently are tied up in what the market research firm called a "vigorous competition" over mobile-PC storage. Hitachi GST, the third largest hard drive maker, kept its market share at 17.2%, but reported a Q1 loss of $150 million, up from a loss of $46 million in Q1 2006. iSuppli believes that especially Seagate and Western Digital will "be challenged to improve their gross margins."...

Following Hitachi GST, Samsung is the second company to offer a 3.5” hard drive with a capacity of 1 TB. However, Samsung offers 67% more storage density per disk. New York (NY) – Following Hitachi GST, Samsung is the second company to offer a 3.5” hard drive with a capacity of 1 TB. However, Samsung offers 67% more storage density per disk....

San Jose (CA) - We have been hearing a lot lately about low-power hard drives and Hitachi GST is only the latest company to continue the trend.. San Jose (CA) - We have been hearing a lot lately about low-power hard drives and Hitachi GST is only the latest company to continue the trend....

Seagate reported $363 million in profits, or 11.7% of revenue, Western Digital announced $298 million, or a 14% return and Hitachi GST stated it had earned $65 million, or 4.6% of revenue. For Hitachi GST, this was a desirable outcome after many quarters of being in the red....