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These excerpts taken from the WDC 10-K filed Aug 20, 2008. Enterprise
Market
The enterprise market for hard drives includes workstations,
servers, network attached storage, storage area networks, other
computing systems or subsystems, and video surveillance.
Historically, hard drives for this market have utilized several
interfaces, including the Small Computer Systems Interface
(“SCSI”) and Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
(“FCAL”). Beginning in 2003, these traditional
enterprise interfaces have been supplemented or have been
replaced in certain storage applications by hard drives
featuring the SATA interface technology, which is supported by
industry standards, as well as by Serial Attached SCSI
(“SAS”). SATA hard drives typically cost customers
less than SCSI hard drives while offering higher capacities and
maintaining similar reliability, scalability and performance.
We believe that enterprise uses of SATA hard drives will
continue to increase. During the past few years, a new
disk-based
back-up
application has emerged with high-capacity SATA hard drives
augmenting SCSI hard drives, tape and optical media. This new
application, popularly referred to as “near-line”
storage, has created a growth market because hard drives back up
or access data more quickly than tape or optical solutions, and
quickly retrieve critical
back-up or
near-line data. The availability of SATA hard drive solutions,
which are more cost effective than SCSI hard drives, promotes
the increasing use of high-capacity hard drives in near-line
storage applications. The low price per capacity of SATA drives
has stimulated new applications such as video surveillance,
video editing/broadcasting and medical imaging. These
applications represent segments of a growing market for high
capacity storage in non-computing imaging and multimedia
professions.
Enterprise-class SATA drives are becoming commonplace for
IT infrastructure applications such as databases, scientific
computing, web content, web caching, web search engines and
electronic mail. These applications have become an important
market for high-capacity SATA hard drives. We believe that this
market will consume a growing portion of the highest capacity
hard drives in the next three years.
SAS is the next generation SCSI technology and is expected to
replace SCSI drives over the next few years. SATA technology is
compatible with SAS technology, enabling customers the
flexibility of incorporating SATA hard drives in SAS storage
systems. We believe the market transition from SCSI to SAS will
add to the growth of the enterprise-class SATA market,
which currently is estimated to be approximately 40% of the
enterprise hard drive market.
High-performance applications such as blade servers are
increasingly using 2.5-inch form factor hard drives, supplanting
traditional 3.5-inch drives. Smaller form factors enable more
drives per physical space for increased performance, higher
capacity per square foot and lower power consumption. This trend
demonstrates the fragmentation of the enterprise hard drive
market and the need for application-specific enterprise-class
hard drives.
Enterprise Market The enterprise market for hard drives includes workstations, servers, network attached storage, storage area networks, other computing systems or subsystems, and video surveillance. Historically, hard drives for this market have utilized several interfaces, including the Small Computer Systems Interface (“SCSI”) and Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (“FCAL”). Beginning in 2003, these traditional enterprise interfaces have been supplemented or have been replaced in certain storage applications by hard drives featuring the SATA interface technology, which is supported by industry standards, as well as by Serial Attached SCSI (“SAS”). SATA hard drives typically cost customers less than SCSI hard drives while offering higher capacities and maintaining similar reliability, scalability and performance. We believe that enterprise uses of SATA hard drives will continue to increase. During the past few years, a new disk-based back-up application has emerged with high-capacity SATA hard drives augmenting SCSI hard drives, tape and optical media. This new application, popularly referred to as “near-line” storage, has created a growth market because hard drives back up or access data more quickly than tape or optical solutions, and quickly retrieve critical back-up or near-line data. The availability of SATA hard drive solutions, which are more cost effective than SCSI hard drives, promotes the increasing use of high-capacity hard drives in near-line storage applications. The low price per capacity of SATA drives has stimulated new applications such as video surveillance, video editing/broadcasting and medical imaging. These applications represent segments of a growing market for high capacity storage in non-computing imaging and multimedia professions. Enterprise-class SATA drives are becoming commonplace for IT infrastructure applications such as databases, scientific computing, web content, web caching, web search engines and electronic mail. These applications have become an important market for high-capacity SATA hard drives. We believe that this market will consume a growing portion of the highest capacity hard drives in the next three years. SAS is the next generation SCSI technology and is expected to replace SCSI drives over the next few years. SATA technology is compatible with SAS technology, enabling customers the flexibility of incorporating SATA hard drives in SAS storage systems. We believe the market transition from SCSI to SAS will add to the growth of the enterprise-class SATA market, which currently is estimated to be approximately 40% of the enterprise hard drive market. High-performance applications such as blade servers are increasingly using 2.5-inch form factor hard drives, supplanting traditional 3.5-inch drives. Smaller form factors enable more drives per physical space for increased performance, higher capacity per square foot and lower power consumption. This trend demonstrates the fragmentation of the enterprise hard drive market and the need for application-specific enterprise-class hard drives. This excerpt taken from the WDC 10-K filed Aug 28, 2007. Enterprise
Market
The enterprise market for hard drives includes workstations,
servers, network attached storage, storage area networks, other
computing systems or subsystems, and video surveillance.
Historically, hard drives for this market have utilized several
interfaces, including the Small Computer Systems Interface
(“SCSI”) and Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
(“FCAL”). Beginning in 2003, these traditional
enterprise interfaces have been supplemented or have been
replaced in certain storage applications by hard drives
featuring the SATA interface technology, which is supported by
industry standards, as well as by Serial Attached SCSI
(“SAS”). SATA hard drives typically cost customers
less than SCSI hard drives while offering higher capacities and
maintaining similar reliability, scalability and performance.
We believe that enterprise uses of SATA hard drives will
continue to increase. During the past few years a new disk-based
back-up
application has emerged with high-capacity SATA hard drives
augmenting SCSI hard drives, tape and optical media. This new
application, popularly referred to as “near-line”
storage, has created a growth market because hard drives
back-up or
access data more quickly than tape or optical solutions, and
quickly retrieve critical
back-up or
near-line data. The availability of SATA hard drive solutions,
which are more cost effective than SCSI hard drives, promotes
the increasing use of high-capacity hard drives in near-line
storage applications. The low price per capacity of SATA drives
has stimulated new applications such as video surveillance,
video editing/broadcasting and medical imaging. These
applications represent segments of a growing market for high
capacity storage in non-computing imaging and multimedia
professions.
Enterprise-class SATA drives are becoming commonplace for
IT infrastructure applications such as databases, scientific
computing, web content, web caching, web search engines and
electronic mail. These applications have become an important
market for high-capacity SATA hard drives. We believe that this
market will consume a growing portion of the highest capacity
hard drives in the next three years.
SAS is the next generation SCSI technology and is expected to
replace SCSI drives over the next few years. SATA technology is
compatible with SAS technology, enabling customers the
flexibility of incorporating SATA hard drives in SAS storage
systems. We believe the market transition from SCSI to SAS will
add to the growth of the enterprise-class SATA market,
which currently is estimated to be more than 30% of the
enterprise hard drive market.
High-performance applications such as blade servers are
increasingly using 2.5-inch form factor hard drives, supplanting
traditional 3.5-inch drives. Smaller form factors enable more
drives per physical space for increased performance, high
capacity per square foot and low power consumption. This trend
demonstrates the fragmentation of the enterprise hard drive
market and the need for application-specific enterprise-class
hard drives.
This excerpt taken from the WDC 10-K filed Nov 20, 2006. Enterprise
Market
The enterprise market for hard drives includes workstations,
servers, network attached storage, storage area networks, and
other computing systems or subsystems. Historically, hard drives
for this market segment have utilized several interfaces,
including the Small Computer Systems Interface
(“SCSI”) and Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop. Beginning
in 2003, these traditional enterprise interfaces have been
supplemented or have been replaced in certain storage
applications by SATA hard drives featuring an interface
technology supported by industry standards. SATA hard drives
typically cost less than SCSI hard drives while offering higher
capacities and maintaining similar reliability, scalability and
performance.
We believe that enterprise uses of SATA hard drives will
continue to increase. During the past few years a new disk-based
back-up
application has emerged with high-capacity SATA hard drives
augmenting SCSI hard drives, tape and optical media. This new
application, popularly referred to as “near-line”
storage, has created a growth market because hard drives
back-up or
access data more quickly than tape or optical solutions, and
quickly retrieve critical
back-up or
near-line data. The availability of SATA hard drive solutions,
which are more cost effective than SCSI hard drives, promotes
the increasing use of hard drives in near-line storage
applications.
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Enterprise-class SATA drives are becoming commonplace for
IT infrastructure applications such as databases, scientific
computing, web caching and electronic mail. These applications
have become an important market for large capacity SATA hard
drives. We believe that this market will consume a growing
portion of the highest capacity hard drives in the next three
years.
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