Briefly tell us about the different market segments for Hard Disks.

Briefly tell us about the different market segments for Hard Disks.

There are various segments for which the Hard Disks are available:

- Desktops: They are the most common form of hard disks. The Desktop Disks can be used to store data between 60 GB to 4 TB. They generally rotate at RPM`s between 5400 and 1000. The data transfer rates for them is around 0.5 Gbit/s

- Mobile: The hard drives belonging to this segment are smaller as compared to desktops. They have a lower capacity and are usually slower. The standard size for such segments is around 2.5 inches.

- Enterprise: These types of hard disks are usually shared between multiple systems and data is written and read at a very fast pace. They are known to rotate at around 10k to 15k RPM, also these drives have the ability to reach sequential speeds of more than 1.6G bit/s.