Already companies such as Intevac are reporting that sales of large capital equipment to support the HDD industry are increasing.

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Of course, the much more interesting news about the new ViP622-1 DVR with MPEG-4 and VC-1 support, a 500GB HDD and the ability to hook up USB drives for extra storage was also revealed during the press conference, we'll have more pics and information on that later.

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We hope to see HDD and SSD combinations or future hybrid HDDs that would support write caching, particularly for notebook and especially ultra-thin notebook computers.

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HGST, part of Western Digital, has announced that it will make He-filled HDDs that can support a couple more disks in a 5 disk 3.5-inch HDD package.

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