Insatiable demand for storage will drive future hard drive industry capital expenditures and technology investments.

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While uncertainty in the hard drive industry is expected to continue over the next few quarters, the third quarter ended on a positive note, with hard drive shipments reaching a new record high.

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Over the 56 years of the hard disk drive industry annual shipments of HDDs have increased year over year except for a few exceptions.

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Personally, I would have liked to see what he would have written about the early hard disk drive industry and the characters that created it.

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Tom is publishes a Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics Report, a Media and Entertainment Storage Report, and a Capital Equipment and Technology Report for the Hard Disk Drive Industry.

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The hard disk drive industry has matured and consolidated.

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Echostar uses the largest Hard drive in the industry and if the consumer wants more space they can buy a USB upgrade.

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Seagate said that, due to industry impacts caused by flooding in Thailand, hard disk drive supply will be constrained for several quarters.

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Early on, some industry analysts predicted trouble for Nintendo : The Wii had a relatively pokey processor, it lacked a hard drive, its controls were unusual.

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