One single $5.5 million grant, for example, seeded development of the small disk drive industry, which enabled creation of the iPod, the iPhone, TiVo and the Xbox.
As early as the late 1980s Quantum Corp. saw which way the wind was blowing and attempted to reposition itself away from its traditional business of supplying small disk drives to PC manufacturers.
He focused on the shift away from the small disk-drive storage device used in the iPod Mini to the solid-state flash memory at the heart of the nano.
The new unit, which is based in San Jose, Calif., plans to announce today that it will expand the storage capacity of I.B.M.'s smallest disk drives.
Each of these five, he says, introduced "smaller disk drives that were slower and had lower capacity than those used in the mainstream market," and each company that adopted them was an entrant firm that toppled an established firm.
[C5.] Hitachi to Introduce One-Inch Hard Drive In the race to make ever-smaller disk drives for hand-held consumer appliances, Hitachi Ltd. is to announce that it has matched Seagate Technologies with what it says is the smallest drive on the market, a one-inch-diameter hard drive that holds eight gigabytes of data.
A small seven-inch screen, a tight but complete keyboard, a flash disk drive, a relatively slow processor and a stripped-down version of the Linux operating system that runs the Firefox browser and Open Office productivity software.
This paper proposes an Energy Efficient Disk (EED) drive architecture which integrates a relatively small-sized NAND flash memory into a traditional disk drive to explore the impact of the flash memory on the performance and energy consumption of the disk.
As a result, all the bits and hardware in a disk drive can be made much smaller.
A zip drive is an external disk drive whose memory disks hold 70 times more data than a conventional floppy disk.
