Seagate is one of the world's largest producers of hard drives and storage solutions with a history marked with many advances. They do have their fans and also their enemies in the data recovery industry as they do not make it simple for hard drive recovery with the stacked platters that they produce. The 1st product they produced was the ST-506, the first hard disk to fit the 5.25-inch form factor of the then famous "mini-floppy drive." Obviously, the hard disk was a smash, and was shortly after upgraded from the 5-megabyte to the 10-megabyte version, the ST-412.
It is the ST-412 hard disk which fueled Seagate's early expansion as it was actually the hard disk used by the first personal computer to contain a hard disk, the IBM XT. Back then, IBM was the biggest provider of personal computers and purchased a volume of hard disks from Seagate that was big enough to propel Seagate to finance viability.
On Nov 1, 1978, Al Shugar, Tom Mitchell and 4 others co founded Shugart Technology as a hard disk drive manufacturer. Shugart Technology was later named into Seagate Technology to avoid confusion with Shugart Associates, a Xerox subsidiary which was also set up by Shugart.
Alan Shugart, the brains behind Seagate was a brilliant engineer, a shrewd businessman and shrewd company executive whose name is linked with the disc drive industry. He was born in LA, California and had a qualification in engineering physics. He worked at the IBM in San Jose California where he quickly climbed up the company ladder to become the Direct Access Storage Product Executive, accountable for IBM's disk storage products. The team which invented the floppy disk directly reported to him.
Seagate Company Highlights
In 1993, Seagate was the 1st disc drive company to ship the 50 millionth hard drive. 6 years after, it shipped its 250 millionth. And 9 years after, in 2008, Seagate was the first to ship 1 billion hard drives.
Seagate was also first to introduce Fibre Channel Interface hard drive in 1997, the 1st 15,000-RPM hard drive in 2000, did the first compound drive in 2006 and released the first transportable 1.5TB drive in September of this year.
In 2006, Seagate was named "Company of the Year" by Forbes magazine.
In 2009 the company registered a net turnover rate of US$3 bn., employed 54,000 folk and sold such products as the Barracuda, Seagate Black Armour and Maxtor, amongst others.
The Firm has had its share of corporate issues, internal quarreling and a legal action but still remains as the planet's groundbreakers and leading players in the disc drive industry.
It is the ST-412 hard disk which fueled Seagate's early expansion as it was actually the hard disk used by the first personal computer to contain a hard disk, the IBM XT. Back then, IBM was the biggest provider of personal computers and purchased a volume of hard disks from Seagate that was big enough to propel Seagate to finance viability.
On Nov 1, 1978, Al Shugar, Tom Mitchell and 4 others co founded Shugart Technology as a hard disk drive manufacturer. Shugart Technology was later named into Seagate Technology to avoid confusion with Shugart Associates, a Xerox subsidiary which was also set up by Shugart.
Alan Shugart, the brains behind Seagate was a brilliant engineer, a shrewd businessman and shrewd company executive whose name is linked with the disc drive industry. He was born in LA, California and had a qualification in engineering physics. He worked at the IBM in San Jose California where he quickly climbed up the company ladder to become the Direct Access Storage Product Executive, accountable for IBM's disk storage products. The team which invented the floppy disk directly reported to him.
Seagate Company Highlights
In 1993, Seagate was the 1st disc drive company to ship the 50 millionth hard drive. 6 years after, it shipped its 250 millionth. And 9 years after, in 2008, Seagate was the first to ship 1 billion hard drives.
Seagate was also first to introduce Fibre Channel Interface hard drive in 1997, the 1st 15,000-RPM hard drive in 2000, did the first compound drive in 2006 and released the first transportable 1.5TB drive in September of this year.
In 2006, Seagate was named "Company of the Year" by Forbes magazine.
In 2009 the company registered a net turnover rate of US$3 bn., employed 54,000 folk and sold such products as the Barracuda, Seagate Black Armour and Maxtor, amongst others.
The Firm has had its share of corporate issues, internal quarreling and a legal action but still remains as the planet's groundbreakers and leading players in the disc drive industry.
About the Author:
Jason Sloan runs a data recovery business called Kingdom Data Recovery Edinburgh who service all of the United Kingdom. He has got many articles on his site which refer to issues with storage and helpful information about stopping data loss.
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