Consumer Hard Drive Sales Forecast to Rise 20%
Driven by the consumer electronics market's seeming unquenchable thirst for storage, disk drive sales will soar from the existing 10% of the total market share for digital devices to 30% in the next two years -- thanks to devices such as multimedia PDAs and mobile gaming devices, as well as rapid technological growth in hard disk drives.
That's the likely scenario according to John Best, Chief Technologist, Hitachi Global Storage Systems, who will be speaking at the upcoming Storage Visions 2005 (www.storagevisions.com) conference, scheduled for January 4 & 5, 2005, in Las Vegas.
Best, who will speak on "The Coming Explosion in HDD-Enabled Devices," will discuss the factors that enabled the development of high-capacity, smaller-sized, hard disk drives and will examine future storage trends such as the introduction of antiferromagnetically coupled media (AFC), which can increase the data capacity of hard drives to up to four times that available in hard disk drives today.
"The hard disk drive will become the storage medium of choice for the next generation of applications and devices," said Best, who is responsible for the overall technical strategy for Hitachi. "There is a historic move in the hard disk storage industry from traditional hard drives -- made mostly for PCs -- to smaller hard drives designed primarily for consumer electronics devices."
Storage Visions 2005 -- the only event focusing on digital storage and the entertainment content value chain -- is a partner of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The conference will take place at the Las Vegas Convention Center two days prior to CES.
Register for Storage Vision 2005 at: www.storagevisions.com. Call 408-935-8150
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