The electronic heart of a hard disk drive is the read-channel integrated circuit (IC). Over the years, read-channel designers have delivered dramatic improvements in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), ...

Geneva, June 2, 2004 - STMicroelectronics today announced a new read-write channel technology for hard disk drives that achieves speeds up to 1.4-Gbit/s while maintaining the power dissipation below 1 ...

Vendors continue to introduce ICs for disk-drive read/write channels, which provide performance beyond that of traditional peak-detection architectures (EDN, Sept 14, 1995, pg 24 and Oct 12, 1995, pg ...

Circuits with performance tailored to meet almost every storage market segment—that's the driving force behind Agere's latest additions to its TrueStore family of ...

One alternative is to back up data on disk, which is inherently faster than tape. Some users are taking an extra step by adding tape to the mix, creating disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) backup systems.