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• Disk-drive demand may be slowing some server shipments
  Tuesday 25 January 2005 – 09:55
  Demand for certain types of disk drives used on Intel-based servers may be running ahead of industry supply.
• IDC: External disk storage systems market achieves record growth in Q3
  Friday 2 December 2005 – 05:45
  Factory revenue in the external disk storage systems market worldwide enjoyed an on-year record growth of 12.5 percent to $3.9 billion in the third quarter of 2005, beating the previous record in 2001, according to International Data Corporation (IDC).
• Nexsan RAID, SAN, and Disk-to-Disk Network Storage
  Friday 9 November 2001 – 07:08
  Next week, Omid and Dave will be on-site at Comdex in Las Vegas, attending all the goings on and letting us in on all the new tech goodies that will be paraded about.
• Microsoft readies disk-based recovery system
  Friday 8 July 2005 – 05:44
  Microsoft's System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) will be ready for prime time in the third quarter, the vendor is expected to announce Friday.
• UPDATE: Samsung to ship hybrid hard disk drive in January 2007
  Wednesday 17 May 2006 – 10:20
  Samsung today said that it will be showing the commercial version of its hybrid hard disk drive at the upcoming Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) next week. The drive will combine Flash memory and will be available early next year.
• Microsoft opens up Virtual Hard Disk specification
  Wednesday 18 October 2006 – 02:26
  Virtualization software, the kind that lets you run multiple operating systems at the same time, is getting a big boost from Microsoft. The company is allowing developers to use its Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) specification for free and without any licenses. The terms are quite simple with Microsoft saying, "The specification(s) could be used for free, easily, now and forever."
• LSI's 180 GB Disk Drive
  Thursday 20 September 2001 – 06:55
  LSI is now shipping big old 180 gigabyte Fibre Channel disk drives for its MetaStor E-Series storage systems.
• Western Digital's disk maker reports a loss for Q2
  Tuesday 7 August 2007 – 10:22 in Business
  San Jose (CA) – Komag, which was recently announced to be acquired by Western Digital for $1 billion, reported a 20% decrease in revenues and a loss for the second quarter of this year. The disk maker announced revenues of 187.2 million and a loss of $21
• Transcend announces 16 GB 'solid state disk'
  Wednesday 4 April 2007 – 01:13
  Transcend is jumping on flash hard drive bandwagon and today announced a 16 GB version of its Express Card series that now carries a 'solid state disk' label.
• Samsung rolls out 160 GB 2.5" single-disk drive
  Friday 13 April 2007 – 05:21
  Samsung has announced a 2.5" form-factor drive with 160 GB of capacity.
• Sony's unveils blue laser disk family
  Monday 17 May 2004 – 05:18
  Sony Electronics will begin shipping its blue laser-based Professional Disk for DATA (ProDATA) next month, offering storage capacity of up to 23 GB on a disk.
• MSI releases USB flash disk, MP3 player
  Monday 4 August 2003 – 02:19
  Micro-Star International (MSI), in another step to diversify its product line, has released an all-in-one USB flash disk, MP3 player, FM radio and digital voice recorder.
• Guinness record for world's smallest disk drive
  Tuesday 16 March 2004 – 11:07
  Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Tuesday that Guinness World Records had certified its stamp-sized hard disk drives (HDDs) as the smallest in the world.
• STM's MEMS Microactuator Makes Disk Drives Denser
  Monday 17 September 2001 – 06:25
  It seems like there's a convention for just about every type of professional, but I honestly hadn't heard of the Diskcon USA 2001 event at the San Jose Convention Center until now.
• Blue violet laser disk delivers 23.3GB
  Monday 18 April 2005 – 07:15
  TDK said it is ready to start manufacturing an ddistributing its re-writeable optical disks compatible with Sony's XDCAM system in June.