Om Malik, who changes website themes like I change shirts, which is to say ‘every once in a while’, opines on the future of hard drive manufacturers, who are currently in the process of losing their shirts right off their kicked-asses’ backs, despite an ever-increasing demand for their product.
Now that is conventional wisdom! However, some of my friends who work in the disk drive business, are suggesting an unconventional logic. They believe that instead of focussing on churning out higher capacity drives at neck-snapping speeds (i.e. Moore’s Law), the industry needs to become more responsive to the real market trends and offer many types of drives. (Moore’s Claw)
Which is better? More reliable, more expensive hard drives, or large, cheap, and unreliable drives that can be rolled into a more-reliable RAID? I guess the answer is, “Both.”
Maybe hard drive makers could take a tip from Taiwan’s wildly-successful cameraphone imaging chip manufacturer Pixart, who is in an mildly-related bit of news is making noise about going all IPO on that ass. The ass of commerce, I guess I’m saying.
Read – The Disk Drive Conundrum [GigaOm]
Read – Taiwan’s Pixart Reaps Camera Phone Boom, Eyes IPO [Reuters]
