Sentence examples for of disk drive from inspiring English sources

Industry executives said the deal was not directly related to concerns expressed by federal government officials this year about the possibility that a Chinese company might be preparing to acquire an American maker of disk drive technology.

"The business is very complicated," said Jun Naruse, the chief executive of the new Hitachi unit, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, who was the former head of disk drive operations for Hitachi.

The shares of Veeco Instruments Inc. tumbled yesterday after the company, a maker of disk drive components, warned that it would miss its third-quarter revenue and earnings estimates.

It also helps that voice recognition software is a tremendous user of disk drive space.

But an iPod cannot use any kind of disk drive, at any cost.

Five years ago Mike Cannon Mike Cannon walked in the door as the new chief executive of disk drive concern Maxtor and found a company on the ropes.

Still, Intel and other companies are likely to benefit from the shortage of disk drives.

The areal density of disk drives -- the amount of data that can be squeezed onto the spinning platter of a disk drive -- has been doubling annually.

A case in point may be Seagate Technology of Scotts Valley, Calif., the largest independent maker of disk drives.

Despite being the dominant supplier of disk drives, Seagate struggled to maintain profits in a competitive market.

Singapore is also benefiting from incentives offered by the government to attract investment by pharmaceutical companies including GlaxoSmithKline, reducing reliance on production of disk drives and other electronics.