UltraBooks: There Will Be Hard Drives

By Trefis: SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK), the maker of solid state drive (SSD) memory, flash cards and USB flash drives, announced that its mini Serial AT attachment (mSATA) SSD memory chips have been adopted by Fujitsu (FJTSY.PK) for its recently-announced ultrabooks and by Lenovo (LN

ByThe Master:Without a doubt the Solid State Drive (SSD) sector is heating up and sales are exploding.

By Stone Fox Capital:As cloud computing (data centers), smartphones, and tablets continue stratospheric growth rates, the market needs faster, more reliable, and less power-hungry storage options. The digital junk has to be stored somewhere, and these new devices don't have the storage capabilities of traditional desktop computers loaded with large hard disk drives.

By Dana Blankenhorn: Dell (DELL) insists its new Ultrabooks are selling three times faster than expected, although they don't give out any figures.Some analysts say they're now more optimistic about the PC's future.But should they be?

By Michael Comeau:Is the Microsoft (MSFT) Windows side of the PC world deathly afraid of Apple's (AAPL) red-hot Macbook Air? A report from Digitimes would indicate yes.

By Trefis: Western Digital (WDC), one of the leading manufacturers of hard disk drives, has collaborated with SanDisk (SNDK), a flash memory or NAND market leader, to launch its first hybrid disk drive (SSHD). [

By Kevin Quon:Solid-state drives (SSDs) may be the future of information storage, but try telling hard disk drive (HDDs) manufacturers that they're in the wrong business now and you'll be sure to get taught a lesson. Investors too, occupied with the inevitable transition to SSDs, are ignoring the fact that a much wider movement is upon them. The push towards cloud storage is inevitably growing demand at an alarming rate.

ByNick Chiu:SanDisk Corporation (SNDK), a global leader in the NAND flash memory market, designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a range of form factors using its flash memory, controller and firmware technologies.