{"id":17669,"date":"2013-03-29T09:54:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T14:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/?p=17669"},"modified":"2014-05-22T13:26:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T18:26:02","slug":"a-look-at-the-hdd-graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eshop.macsales.com\/blog\/17669-a-look-at-the-hdd-graveyard\/","title":{"rendered":"A Look At The ‘HDD Graveyard’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"When a company sells 2 billion of anything<\/em>, there’s bound to be a good amount of competition that arises along the way. Unfortunately, with that much competition comes a fair number of casualties.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago we posted on the OWC Blog<\/a> that hard drive manufacturer\u00a0Seagate Technology recently shipped its 2 billionth hard disk drive. And now the folks at\u00a0StorageNewsletter<\/a>\u00a0have posted a little historical snapshot of those who have challenged Seagate and the two other current HDD manufacturers \u2013 Toshiba and Western Digital \u2013 along the way.<\/p>\n

Grimly dubbed the “HDD Graveyard”<\/a>, StorageNewsletter lists all of those companies that have failed or discontinued production on HDDs since the technology’s introduction by IBM in 1956. Of the 220 companies that have entered production since that year, only the three mentioned above have survived. That leaves 217 that have failed or discontinued production. This list is worth checking out not only because it\u00a0unearths some very notable names, but it also brings to light some interesting trivia from the history of the HDD.<\/p>\n

Of course, the advent of Solid State Drives<\/a> has played a big part in eliminating some of the need for HDDs, but it’s interesting to see the journey of their platter-based brethren.\u00a0So take a stroll back in time and check out just how far the HDD has come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a company sells 2 billion of anything, there’s bound to be a good amount of competition that arises along the way. Unfortunately, with that much competition comes a fair number of casualties. 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