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The acquisition was a success story for Maxtor, and the subsidiary had grown to generate $80 million in sales by 1992. [7] That year, Maxtor sold off Storage Dimensions to private investors. [7] In 1990, Maxtor entered the mass market with its purchase of the assets (but not the liabilities) of bankrupt MiniScribe in Longmont, Colorado. [8]
HPA can also be used to store data that is deemed illegal and is thus of interest to government and police computer forensics teams. [ 3 ] Some vendor-specific external drive enclosures (e.g. Maxtor, owned by Seagate since 2006) are known to use HPA to limit the capacity of unknown replacement hard drives installed into the enclosure.
Wong, Poh-Kam (July 1999). "The Dynamics of the HDD Industry Development in Singapore" (PDF).Centre for Management of Innovation and Technopreneurship, National University of Singapore: The Information Storage Industry Center, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California.
A 44 MB, 5.25-inch full-height MiniScribe hard disk, shown with a more recent 2 GB CompactFlash memory card for size comparison. The company was started by Terry Johnson, who had a 20-year career in the hard drive business at such companies as IBM, Memorex and Storage Technology Corporation.
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1994 – Maxtor introduces the first 5 mm thick hard drive. [26] 1996 – Seagate ships the first 10,000-rpm hard drive, the Cheetah [42] 1997 – IBM Deskstar 16 GB "Titan" – 16,800 megabytes, five 3.5-inch disks; first Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) heads; 1997 – Seagate introduces the first hard drive with fluid bearings [44]
Formerly, but sold that business to Seagate [34] Yes Yes No Yes SanDisk: United States No Formerly, through a joint venture with Toshiba Formerly, now a brand of WD: No Formerly, now a brand of WD: Seagate Technology [35] United States and Ireland Yes Yes, through stake in Kioxia: Yes No Yes, through its subsidiary SandForce and stake in Kioxia ...
Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T. or SMART) is a monitoring system included in computer hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs). [3] Its primary function is to detect and report various indicators of drive reliability, or how long a drive can function while anticipating imminent hardware failures.