Hard Drive Makers to End Year on a High Note
Hard Drive Makers to End Year on a High Note
Posted 12/16/2010 at 9:56am
| by Paul Lilly
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After noting a decline in hard drive shipments back in the second quarter of this year, HDD makers are ready to celebrate a "happy holiday" as shipments end the year on a rally, iSuppli says.
"The fourth quarter increases in HDD shipments and revenue reflect positive developments on several fronts, including the stabilization of prices, strong demand from the enterprise segment, and a return to normal inventory levels," said Fang Zhang, analyst for storage systems at iSuppli.
The market research firm says HD shipments will reach an estimated 169.2 million units in the fourth quarter, up 2.2 percent from one quarter ago. Equally important, revenue is expected to jump 2.1 percent to $8.9 billion.
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logicmaster2003
December 16, 2010 at 3:33pm
I seem to kept buying HDD whenever its cheap and now I'm overpopulated with HDD (mechanical HDD). I wish theres a way to trade some of these for an SSD drive !
HVDynamo
December 16, 2010 at 10:41am
Yes, it is possible to have multiple usable drives without the use of RAID. I currently have 5 drives in my computer, non of which are raided. I have a Boot Drive, Games Drive, Music Drive, Video Drive, and a Miscellaneous files drive.
Kethsar
December 16, 2010 at 10:08am
Since we are on the topic of HDD's, I have quick question; Is it possible to have multiple, usable HDD's in a computer without having RAID? My current HDD came with 586GBs usable space, and I'm starting to run low (probably from all that HD anime >_>). While I do have 186GBs left, I know that space will go quick when I record games with Fraps.
Thank you for your help!
tweeve
December 16, 2010 at 11:24am
I have 9 hard drives in my system, which is about 6TB of drive space, and most of it full. Just make sure you have a spare SATA port on your motherboard and plug in a new drive. Oh yeah and make sure your power supply wont max out by adding extra hard drives.
someone87
December 16, 2010 at 10:40am
Just plug them in, go into comptuer managment, disk managment, partition, and assign a drive number if nessessary.
It would then look like a USB flash drive, or something similar, simply another drive number in "my computer".
That's assuming your motherboard supports more drives. If it's IDE your typically limited to 3, 4 with no CD drive. If it is IDE make sure your jumpers are correct.
knexkid
December 16, 2010 at 12:20pm
Oh the good old days of having to properly set master-slave jumper settings with IDE...how I DON'T miss that...but then again my 2 DVD drives are still IDE....*shudder*
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