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Media Storage Disk Drive Chemical Solutions
Aluminum
Pre-Plate Products [Cleaners, surfactants, rough & fine grinding coolants,
etchants, deoxidizers]
Alternate
Substrate Products [glass media cleaners and etchants]
Caddie
(Cassette) Cleaning Products
Electroless
Nickel (Ni/Phos) Post-Plate Products [alkaline, acidic and neutral cleaners & surfactants]
Texturing
Fluids [For: diamond, colloidal silica, aluminum oxide, silicon carbide]
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Products Cross Reference Chart
NEW PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENTS:
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Non-Hazardous Acid Cleaner: NuWet DA31C - for post disk polish and texture. Great choice for PMR. |
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NuKoat RP 1 - Corrosion Inhibitor for Read Write Heads and Microelectronic Devices |
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NuRinse LF1X and LF12 for Cassette Cleaning |
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NuWet DM 33 - Post polish Glass Cleaning and Slider Cleaning |
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Non-Hazardous Acid Cleaner: NuWet 4100 - for post disk polish and texture. Great choice for PMR. Ultralow surface tensions <18 dynes/cm. LOW surfactant levels. Less surfactant = faster rinsing & less potential organic residue left behind from the cleaning process. |
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| Seagate First to Ship 500GB on a Single-Platter Disk The Barracuda 7200.12 HD, a 3.5-inch, 7200-rpm drive, packs a full 1TB of data capacity on two disks. Seagate's new hard drive features a record areal density of 329G bits per square inch and is aimed at both the consumer and enterprise markets for desktop RAID. - Seagate Technology upped the storage ante for consumer and enterprise desktop disk drives Jan. 5 by announcing the first volume shipments of a drive that features, for the first time, a single-platter 500GB disk. The Barracuda 7200.12 HD, a 3.5-inch, 7200-rpm drive, packs a full 1TB of data ... |
| eWEEK Labs Walk-Through: Data Domain OpenStorage Data Domain leads a growing list of enterprise IT vendors getting into the data deduplication space. With its OpenStorage solution, Data Domain is keeping ahead of competitors such as IBM, EMC and NetApp. Data Domain OST is an impressive data deduplication offering, and the company promises more improvements in the future, including a more functional Web GUI. - ... |
| Data Domain Leads Growing List of Deduplication Vendors Data deduplication promises enterprises more efficient storage capabilities, including greater energy efficiency and greener IT. Vendors such as IBM, EMC and NetApp are getting into the competitive data deduplication market, but for the time being, Data Domain leads the pack. Data Domains OpenStorage solution is easy to deploy but could use a better Web GUI. - Data deduplication promises to use enterprise storage more efficiently, reducing the need to buy as much media tape or disk and as a result save space, power, and cooling in the data center. Unfortunately, it is also a term that can have almost as many different meanings as there are specific te... |
| Symwave to Demo USB 3.0 Data Link Protocol at CES Networking semiconductor maker Symwave will present the first public demonstration of USB 3.0 connectivity Jan. 6 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Symwave will demonstrate SuperSpeed USB 3.0, which it claims is at least 10 times faster than the current best USB performance. The ramifications for both consumer and enterprise markets are intriguing. - The USB data connectivity protocol which connects an estimated 90 percent of all data storage devices in the world to disk or solid-state drives hasn't had many substantial upgrades made to it since the late 1990s. Starting Jan. 6, however, that's all going to change. Networking semiconductor m... |
| Improving Data Quality A recent Innovations blog discussed how poor data quality can severely impact business initiatives. Its source is varied and can include bad business processes, business units maintaining siloed databases, and merging databases when companies are acquired. Watch this video to learn the steps that must be taken to help ensure good data quality throughout the enterprise. - Video Content.... |
| DataCore Launches New $2K SAN Starter Packages The Florida-based company becomes the latest big-name provider to announce products with pricing incentives in its new line of full-featured SAN (storage area network) software starter packages aimed at the small to midsize business market. - As we have often reported here at eWEEK during 2008, enterprise storage software and hardware pricing continues to be very competitive and on a downward slope. DataCore became the latest provider to announce new products along with pricing incentives on Dec. 30 when it launched a new line of ... |
| Why IT Co-location Centers Will See a Boom in 2009 Despite the Macroeconomy In the midst of a painful recession, i/o Data Centers, which houses about 150 SMB IT systems, secures $56 million in venture capital and becomes a poster child for a burgeoning market. Analysts expect co-location to be a hot sector in 2009. - It wasn't what anyone would consider a major IT news story when it broke earlier in December, but it was an important clue to how the IT co-location business can be expected to play out in 2009 and beyond. i/o Data Centers, which serves as the physical home for about 150 small- and midsize-bus... |
| Super 7 Storage Technologies--and How They Could Backfire Following are seven storage technologies you must have on your radar, why they're important and how they could backfire. by Dave Greenfield - ... |
| Survey: Data Center Budgets Will Stay Pretty Much the Same in 2009 AFCOM survey indicates that nearly two-thirds of managers of large data centers will maintain or increase their budgets in 2009, despite the deepening recession. The remaining one-third will lose about 15 percent of their budgets, with much of the reduction involving travel and training expenses. - A noted data center industry association reported Dec. 23 in a survey of IT managers that nearly two-thirds will see their IT budgets stay the same or even increase in 2009, and that the remaining one-third will lose only about 15 percent of their budgets. That ought to serve as some relativel... |
| Intel Begins Shipping 160GB Solid-State SATA Drives for Laptops Intel, which began offering its own line of solid-state drives earlier in 2008, is now shipping a 2.5-inch SSD with a 160GB data storage capacity. In January, Intel will also ship a 1.8-inch version of its SSD SATA drive for ultraportable notebooks. The new Intel SSDs come as the price of NAND flash memory continues to drop. - Intel is now shipping a 160GB version of its solid-state Serial ATA drives for mainstream laptops, and the chip giant is preparing to launch a different version for ultraportable notebooks in January. Intel announced that it had begun shipping a 160GB version of its 2.5-inch X25-M SSD (solid-st... |
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