Additional offerings include the LaCie Rugged USB 3.0 Thunderbolt Series, LaCie d2 USB 3.0 Thunderbolt Series, LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt Series, LaCie 2big Thunderbolt Series and LaCie eSATA Hub Thunderbolt Series.

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Marvell now supplies chips for 90% of big corporate disk drives and half the chips for mass-market PC drives.

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Rip open a Cisco switch, an Apple iPod, an Xbox 360 or any big corporate disk drive and you'll find a Marvell chip inside.

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The one big difference between spinning disk and Flash-based systems is spinning disk controller designers never worried about wearing disk out, so there is inefficiencies in how the applications are written.

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They picked disk drives, for two reasons: There were no standards bodies dominated by big companies.

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Since selling its disk drive business more than 10 years ago, the company has focused on data protection and big data management.

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This coupled with the fact that big businesses have to cope with increasing computing workloads in server virtualization environments and cloud computing, that soon disk storage will look outdated.

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Helping both buyers and sellers of big data solutions is the squeezing of more data into less space and Toshiba has announced this week its largest capacity disk drive to date, capable of holding four terabytes.

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