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Top 20 Stories in 2011
By Jean-Jacques Maleval, Mon, December 26th, 2011
Ranked on number of readers and editor's choice
1. Thailand Floods to Significantly Impact HDD Industry
For WD only: primary manufacturing site inundated, second site at risk
2. Analysis of WD/Hitachi Huge Deal
It's Waterloo for Napoléon Seagate.
3. Seagate Buys Samsung As Expected
For $1.375 billion, more than expected
4. Hitachi Data Systems Buys NAS Partner BlueArc
Cash payment not disclosed
5. Oracle Buys Pillar
Buyer's CEO owner of the acquired company!
6. LSI to Sell Ingenio External Disk Systems to NetApp
For $480 million in cash (LSI's press release)
7. Beginning of the End for Competition in HDDs?
Seagate and WD slashing warranty periods at about the same time
8. Prices of HDDs Already Tripling for SATA 3.5-Inch Units
Doubling for SATA 2.5-inch disk drives
9. Hitachi GST With 1TB Per 3.5-Inch Disk Platter
Former record at 750GB, 4TB HDD to arrive soon.
10. Seagate With Record 1TB on One 3.5-Inch Platter
4TB HDDs could become a reality very soon.
11. Impressive Pictures of Thai Manufacturing Plants in Water
Published on the web
12. Tape Is Not Dead, But Dying
Our analysis
13. First Step for LTO-6 (Native 3.2TB, 210MB/s)
Availability of licenses now, tomorrow for drives and media
14. WW Data More Than Doubling Every Two Years
1,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes created or replicated in 2011, IDC says
15. Apple Ordered 12PB (!) of Storage on Isilon's Systems
For iTunes
16. HDD Technology Trends
Excellent article from IBM researchers in Almaden, CA
17. Record 5TB for Tape by Oracle/StorageTek and Fujifilm
One exabyte capacity can be reached in library.
18. Former FalconStor Chairman/CEO ReiJane Huai Shot Himself
Was amid allegations of insider trading.
19. Analysis of Intel 10GB/s Thunderbolt
A step towards PC with one type of connector doing it all and without HDDs?
20. History: First HDD at 55 From IBM at 100
Ramac 350: 4.4MB, $11,000 per megabyte
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