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Coughlin Associates

Tom Coughlin, President, has been working for over 20 years in the data storage field at Ampex, Polaroid, Maxtor, Seagate, 3M and other companies. He has over 40 publications to his credit. Coughlin Associates provides Data Storage Consulting services.

see also:- Coughlin Associates - editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

and his book - Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics - The Essential Guide

editor's comments:- Tom Coughlin has organized many storage events - including the annual Storage Visions Conference .

His market reports tend to focuse on the HDD market.

In June 2010 - Coughlin Associates published its 14th annual HDD Capital Equipment and Technology Report (pdf) (189 pages / $7,000). Fueling the need for more capex the authors anticipate that disk drive volumes will more than double - from about 670M in 2010 to 1.4B in 2015 - and that technology developments will result in 10TB 3.5" HDDs and 1TB 1.8" drives.

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SSDs - reaching for the Petabyte

Editor:- in the future there will be just 3 types of SSD in the datacenter.

One of them doesn't exist yet. But it will be the biggest consumer of nv memory in the whole SSD market. With a bigger installed SSD capacity than the notebook SSD market, and much bigger than the PCIe / Infiniband and SAN SSD markets.

The new model of the datacenter is just one of the many ideas explored in this visionary article - Reaching for the petabyte SSD.

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