Hard drive recovery is conducted on many different types of hard disk. No two hard disk drive makers are the same, Western Digital are one of the most popular hard disk makers today, here's a brief article on the way the landmark stages of the company throughout the past few decades.
On April 23, 1970, a Motorola employee named Alvin B. Phillips set up Western Digital Corp, now the planet's 2nd biggest disk drive manufacturing company, second only to Seagate. It was initially named General Digital which had a quick stint at manufacturing metal oxide semiconductor or MOS employed in magnifying electronic signals.
1970's
In the early 70's, WD made revenue by selling calculator chips and shortly became the world's number 1 producer of calculator chips. But economic crisis struck in the mid-70's so that in 1976, Western Digital declared bankruptcy. There were two gigantic factors which led to this financial disaster: the oil crisis which caused a drastic loss in buying power worldwide and the bankruptcy of its largest calculator customer, the Bowmar Instrument. Worse still, the firm's main provider of seed capital withdrew its support. The floundering company was compelled to stand on its own wobbly feet.
Western Digital Corp pulled out from the crash and produced some innovate products in this time, notably the MCP-1600, a multi-chip microprocessor used by Pascal and DEC and by some floppy disk drive controller chips. The company flourished.
1980's
Western Digital embarked upon the data storage industry in this time. Just about at the same time, they were making hard disk drive controllers. Then, in 1983, they secured the contract to provide IBM with controllers. The controller they made became the foundation for the ATA interface, that has become the interface standard for the connection of storage devices. The huge profits caused by these controllers not only brought the organisation back prominence but fueled its corporate growth also.
Western Digital used their huge income from ATA controllers to leap into being the Personal computer industry's manufacturer of general-purpose OEM hardware. Western Digital produced graphic cards, core logic chipsets and SCSI controller chips for disk and tape devices which various firms acquired and retailed under their brand names. In this period also, the organization introduced many "firsts," the 1st single-chip SCSI interface, the first single-chip implementation of the floppy disk controller circuitry, the granddad of modern super I/O chips and the first single-chip ATA hard disk drive controller.
The year 1988 was a fateful time for WDC as it bought the production assets of Tandon, a personal computer hardware maker. Because of this, Western Digital was able to produce its "Centaur" line of ATA and XT attachment drives.
1990's
The start of the 90s proved to be difficult for WD. At first, they were doing so well with their "Caviar" series that they decided to sell their other divisions. As an example, the division making graphic cards was sold to Phillips, the floppy drive controller division went to SMC markets and their SCSI controller business went to Adaptec. Nevertheless in 1995, the technology of the organization's "Caviar" series was surpassed by emerging competition and the company fell once again into a slump.
In 1998, WDC sought the help of IBM and had access to both the technology and facilities of IBM. Shortly, WDC gained the industry's respect when it came out with their "Expert" line of hard drives.
2000 to the present
Western Digital sought help from IBM and as a consequence had access to both the technology and facilities of IBM. Soon,
WDC also produced their GP range of hard drives which had really low power consumption, low heat dissipation and amazingly great performance.
In 2009, they released the first 2 Terebyte internal hard disk drive and in October of the present year, the 1st 3 Terebyte internal hard drive was announced.
In 2001 WDC became first to offer ATA hard drives with 8 MB of cache buffer. The company fast-tracked their technical edge and dotted the decade with numerous discoveries. In 2006, WDC came up with the My Book line of mass market external hard drives, including a one Terebyte version in the following year.
On April 23, 1970, a Motorola employee named Alvin B. Phillips set up Western Digital Corp, now the planet's 2nd biggest disk drive manufacturing company, second only to Seagate. It was initially named General Digital which had a quick stint at manufacturing metal oxide semiconductor or MOS employed in magnifying electronic signals.
1970's
In the early 70's, WD made revenue by selling calculator chips and shortly became the world's number 1 producer of calculator chips. But economic crisis struck in the mid-70's so that in 1976, Western Digital declared bankruptcy. There were two gigantic factors which led to this financial disaster: the oil crisis which caused a drastic loss in buying power worldwide and the bankruptcy of its largest calculator customer, the Bowmar Instrument. Worse still, the firm's main provider of seed capital withdrew its support. The floundering company was compelled to stand on its own wobbly feet.
Western Digital Corp pulled out from the crash and produced some innovate products in this time, notably the MCP-1600, a multi-chip microprocessor used by Pascal and DEC and by some floppy disk drive controller chips. The company flourished.
1980's
Western Digital embarked upon the data storage industry in this time. Just about at the same time, they were making hard disk drive controllers. Then, in 1983, they secured the contract to provide IBM with controllers. The controller they made became the foundation for the ATA interface, that has become the interface standard for the connection of storage devices. The huge profits caused by these controllers not only brought the organisation back prominence but fueled its corporate growth also.
Western Digital used their huge income from ATA controllers to leap into being the Personal computer industry's manufacturer of general-purpose OEM hardware. Western Digital produced graphic cards, core logic chipsets and SCSI controller chips for disk and tape devices which various firms acquired and retailed under their brand names. In this period also, the organization introduced many "firsts," the 1st single-chip SCSI interface, the first single-chip implementation of the floppy disk controller circuitry, the granddad of modern super I/O chips and the first single-chip ATA hard disk drive controller.
The year 1988 was a fateful time for WDC as it bought the production assets of Tandon, a personal computer hardware maker. Because of this, Western Digital was able to produce its "Centaur" line of ATA and XT attachment drives.
1990's
The start of the 90s proved to be difficult for WD. At first, they were doing so well with their "Caviar" series that they decided to sell their other divisions. As an example, the division making graphic cards was sold to Phillips, the floppy drive controller division went to SMC markets and their SCSI controller business went to Adaptec. Nevertheless in 1995, the technology of the organization's "Caviar" series was surpassed by emerging competition and the company fell once again into a slump.
In 1998, WDC sought the help of IBM and had access to both the technology and facilities of IBM. Shortly, WDC gained the industry's respect when it came out with their "Expert" line of hard drives.
2000 to the present
Western Digital sought help from IBM and as a consequence had access to both the technology and facilities of IBM. Soon,
WDC also produced their GP range of hard drives which had really low power consumption, low heat dissipation and amazingly great performance.
In 2009, they released the first 2 Terebyte internal hard disk drive and in October of the present year, the 1st 3 Terebyte internal hard drive was announced.
In 2001 WDC became first to offer ATA hard drives with 8 MB of cache buffer. The company fast-tracked their technical edge and dotted the decade with numerous discoveries. In 2006, WDC came up with the My Book line of mass market external hard drives, including a one Terebyte version in the following year.
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