Consequently, lower average prices should boost demand as the cost advantage of HDDs will be diminished.
These fast SAS interfaces will support the growth of both SSDs and HDDs in enterprise applications.
Last week Hitachi GST said that it had shipped 25 million 7-mm thick 2.5-inch HDDs.
SSDs using flash memory consume considerably less energy when they are operating compared to HDDs.
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Flash memory is more expensive than HDDs and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
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Toshiba also continues to support its enterprise HDDs and indicated additional demand for 15k RPM products.
Other approaches create a hybrid storage configuration where flash and HDDs act like a single storage system.
Keeping data in memory both speeds performance and can save power vs. accessing that data from HDDs.
By 2013 this technology could result in about 7 TB HDDs being introduced for near-line storage applications.
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The HYVE is a 2XOpenU storage server with up to 15 e.5-inch HDDs in a 3X5 array.
During the early part of the recent economic recession, demand for HDDs fell and customers reduced inventory.
So far Seagate is the only company making hybrid HDDs today that combine flash memory and a HDD.
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The market for these high capacity low cost storage devices is one of the fastest growing niches for HDDs.
Pricing has been flat to upward-biased in many parts of HDDs, and there have been no indications of over-supply.
We have not yet seen the best days for flash memory, or HDDs.
HDDs provide a crucial role in modern computers, enterprise storage equipment, including cloud storage, and many consumer electronic devices.
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As a consequence many people that used to design HDDs and HDD components no longer work in this industry.
Demand has soared for HDDs due to the ever-increasing amounts of digital content such as music, photographs, and videos.
However, we expect demand for HDDs to remain robust in the near term.
The TCG standards cover various Self Encrypted Drives (SEDs) such as hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs).
Coughlin Associates estimates that overall shipments of HDDs in 2012 will be about 592 M (down about 5.2% from 2011).
Thanks to the heat decrease, there's room for four internal HDDs, along with the dual disk drives that were rumored.
Apple has introduced a very innovative approach to combining HDDs and flash memory that it should extend beyond desktop computers.
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The third generation increases storage capacity to 180 TB using 4 TB HDDs and allows multiple boot-drives, including SSD drives.
In addition to that, I think it will be quite some time before HDDs are squeezed out of the equation.
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Products for consumer electronics include various HDDs designed for digital video recorders, set-top boxes, karaoke machines, printers and gaming consoles.
However, SSDs are currently much more expensive per GB than HDDs, leading to slow adoption of SSDs as primary memory components.
This allows high speed enterprise SSDS and HDDs to be combined with slower but higher capacity and lower prices storage systems.
Large capacity HDDs using this technology will find uses for near line content libraries, cloud storage environments and public data centers.
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