This will bring some opportunities to some of the other drive vendors. However, it may be a challenge for those players to pick up additional business because the industry is fully utilized in terms of...

Consumers want their content portable, and the 79 percent increase in shipments of mobile disk drives into consumer devices in 2005 over 2004 is evidence of this dynamic. IDC attributes this growth to a combination...

They’ve been executing their strategy very well, and it’s been evident in their profitability.

It will be challenging for Toshiba to maintain its market share with new entrants, but overall unit growth for these two categories of [hard drives] over the next few years will provide Toshiba with an...

As the demand for portable digital music and video grows, mobile device manufacturers will need ample storage capacities. Small form factor drives such as Seagate’s ST1.3 provide a cost effective, high capacity storage solution for...

(Mergers are) good for the industry. Just the fact that there are fewer companies in the industry should help stabilize pricing in the long term. In the near term, there could be some benefit to...