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The Hard Business of Selling Hard Drive Platters

Posted by timothy on from the weep-for-them dept.

redfieldp writes: "This is a pretty interesting story about the 'last' HD manufacturer in the U.S., and reasons why the industry is ailing ..." There's quite a bit of interesting hard-drive history in here, too.

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  1. One of the other factors. by AA0 · · Score: 1, Troll

    HDs are currently the slowest thing in your computer, it is the ultimate bottleneck. This is getting worse and worse each time, the performance jumps just are not present in this industry. People will not go out and buy a new HD like they would a graphics card, because the performance increases just a few percent over the model for HDs. Graphics cards double in speed in 6 to 9 months.

    CPUs increase massively, and there is still the enthusiast market to drive it, but there are no HD enthusiast markets, not until the manufacturers think of something creative in design (and no, IBM, unprecidented failure doesn't count). It took this long to get a 8meg cache drive, and we all know how cheap memory is.
    There is serious lack of innovation in this field.