The entire fruit fly genome is already available on digital disk for reference.
But the company is riding high on computer giant Compaq's decision to use Creative's second-generation digital video disk upgrade kit in its new PC lines.
The chip that VM Labs has designed is cheaper than traditional decoders, and the company has already licensed its technology to several DVD (Digital Versatile Disk) makers, including Matsushita and Toshiba.
Western Digital, another large disk-drive maker, recently let 2, 500 Singaporeans go.
Thus consumer storage growth will be a driver in cost effective digital storage provided by hard disk drives.
But how much better to be Western Digital Corporation, the number two disk-drive maker at the time?
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The biggest opportunity from this data lies in short selling disk drive manufacturers Western Digital and Seagate.
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While Western Digital does sell more than just disk drives, almost all of its products are PC related, linking it to depressed tech giants Intel ( INTC) and Microsoft ( MSFT) in many minds.
Disk-drive maker Western Digital reported better-than-expected results for its fiscal second quarter ended December 30.
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Shares of disk-drive maker Western Digital are trading higher Thursday after Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty this morning advised investors to buy the stock ahead of June quarter results.
Shares of disk-drive maker Western Digital this afternoon are trading modestly higher after the company reported financial results for its fiscal first quarter ended September 28 that edged Street estimates.
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Disk-drive maker Western Digital said that production had resumed on its hard drives on November 30, after the facility was pumped dry of flood water, the power was restored and damaged inventories assessed.
Needham analyst Richard Kugele this morning raised his rating on Western Digital to Buy from Hold after the disk-drive maker late yesterday reported better-than-forecast results for its fiscal third quarter ended December 31.
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Although Intel did not detail where the disk drive shortages are originating from, disk driver makers like Western Digital (WDC) and Seagate (STX) have discussed various levels of supply shortages in recent weeks due to flooding in Thailand.
It may be too early to write an obituary for Hitachi GST but it seems likely that calendar Q1 2012 may be the last quarter for a company that has roots stretching back to the beginning of the digital storage industry and the first hard disk drives.
We got into it because we were doing a traditional value play, buying the spinning disk drive maker Seagate and Western Digital.
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As can be seen, traditional film use is 15% or less with digital technologies such as optical discs, hard disk drives, magnetic tape and flash memory are the bulk of modern recording media.
Figure 2 in the accompanying power point file shows historical storage areal density (AD) growth for HDDs (this is directly related to the amount of digital storage that can be put on a disk in a hard disk drive) from Q1 2000 through Q1 2011.
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Shares of disk-drive makers Seagate and Western Digital are trading higher Thursday morning after J.
Consumer devices use common digital storage technology such as flash memory, hard disk drives or optical discs.
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Hard disk drives provide high capacity cost effective digital storage and thus we think that the decline in HDD shipments in 2012 will likely not continue.
Shares of disk-drive makers Seagate and Western Digital are trading lower Friday morning after Citigroup analyst Joe Yoo cut his ratings on both companies to Sell from Buy.
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The stronger-than-expected PC sales data also bodes well for the March quarter results from both Microsoft and Intel, and for the disk-drive makers Seagate and Western Digital.
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Secure storage devices with on-board encryption are available from many vendors today, including all hard disk manufacturers (Seagate Technology, Western Digital and Toshiba) as well as major SSD manufacturers such as Intel, Micron, and Samsung.
The storage disk will also be used in future generations of digital audio devices for portable MP3 players.
This model is driving the growth of digital storage in data centers and thus the sale of hard disk drives, tape storage and flash memory used in enterprise storage tiers for these data centers.
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Chanos thinks the disk drive makers will face added pressure from excess supply of digital storage space.
Shares in Toshiba climbed 1.4% after the firm said it would sell its Thailand hard-disk-drive manufacturing subsidiary to U.S. peer Western Digital Corp.
The bulk of digital content in data centers will remain on magnetic storage media either hard disk drives or magnetic tape.
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