Seagate Technology Cor, founded in 1979, is the world's largest manufacturer of hard disks, disks and read-write heads, headquartered in Scott valley, California, USA. Seagate is a global leader in designing, manufacturing and selling hard drives, providing products for enterprises, desktop computers, mobile devices and consumer electronics.
Some big stories of Seagate
1979 Seagate was founded as a hard disk manufacturer.
1980 Seagate made the industry's first 5.25-inch hard disk.
1989 Seagate acquired "Imprimis technology-large capacity hard disk and parts".
1992165438+10 In October, Seagate launched its first hard disk with 7200 rpm.
1992165438+10 In October, Seagate applied vibration sensing technology to 3.5-inch hard disk and took the lead in bringing it to market.
1993 Seagate shipped the 50th hard disk in May.
1996 In February, Seagate merged with Connor Peripheral Company to form the world's largest independent storage equipment manufacturing company.
1996 10 Seagate introduced the first 10000 rpm hard disk-Jaguar series.
1997 10 Seagate introduced the first 7200 RPM UltraATA hard disk for desktop computers.
1997 10 Seagate introduced the world's first hard disk with Fibre Channel interface.
1March 1998, Seagate produced 65,438 billion recording heads.
1April 1999 Seagate shipped the 250 millionth hard disk.
June 5438 +2000 10, DISHPlayer 500 integrated with Seagate hard disk-Seagate became the world's largest supplier of digital video recorders and user data storage.
In February 2000, Seagate introduced the world's first hard disk with 15000 RPM-Jaguar X 15.
In June, 2000, Seagate introduced the world's largest hard disk-Cool Fish 180 G hard disk.
On March 5438+0, 2006, the second generation Jaguar X15-went on the market-one year earlier than its competitors.
200 1 10 Microsoft Xbox was introduced to the market with Seagate hard disk.
Seagate products
In May 2002, Seagate introduced Jaguar15K.3, its third generation 15000 rpm hard disk, which was one year earlier than its competitors.
In August, 2002, Seagate successfully demonstrated the technology of HAMR, which aims to increase the storage surface density by more than 100 times.
In June, 2002, Seagate demonstrated the vertical recording technology, and realized the storage surface density of-0/00 gigabits per square inch/kloc.
In June 2002165438+1October, Seagate delivered the industry's first ATA (serial ATA hard disk-Cool Fish ATA V).
From June 5438 to February 2002, Seagate became a listed company again (NYSE:STX).
In June 2003, Seagate entered the notebook hard disk market with Momentus 2.5-inch hard disk.
In February 2004, Seagate announced the launch of SavVio, the industry's first 2.5-inch enterprise-class hard disk.
In June, 2004, Seagate introduced 65,438+02 new products, which are unprecedented in the industry and have a wide range of applications, such as MP3, DVR, consumer electronics, notebook computers, PCs, servers and enterprise data centers.
In February 2005, PC World rated Seagate Barracuda 7200 as the best hard disk product.
In March 2005, Seagate delivered100000 15K RPM hard disks.
In May 2005, Seagate was awarded the Enterprise for Promoting Women's Employment.
In June, 2005, Seagate Company came again: it launched 65,438+00 innovative hard disk products, including the first 2.5-inch hard disk with vertical recording technology and the first hard disk with full disk encryption technology, providing strong data security protection.
In August, 2005, VarBusiness magazine awarded Seagate the "Best Company of the Year" and "Best Product Innovation Award".
In September 2005, Seagate acquired Mirra.
June 5438 +2006 10, Seagate was selected as "the best company in 2006" by Forbes.
In April 2006, the world's first 750G hard disk came out.
Seagate successfully acquired Maituo Company in May 2006.
In March 2007, Seagate introduced the world's first full-disk encrypted hard disk for notebook computers.
In June 2007, Seagate introduced the world's first hybrid hard disk.
In March 2007, Seagate acquired Evault.
In March 2008, Seagate acquired MetaLINCS.
In April 2008, Seagate sold 10 billion hard drives.
In July 2008, Seagate shipped the world's first 1.5TB hard disk.
20 10 In mid-May, Seagate confirmed that it will release the world's first 3TB hard drive by the end of the year.
In 20 10, Seagate became the second largest hard disk manufacturer in the world, and Western Digital became the first. Western Digital occupies nearly 50% of the hard disk market.
2011April 19 Seagate acquires Samsung HDD business.
2065438+01September 8th, the industry's highest capacity hard disk was shipped, and the brand-new 4TB Goflex Desk external hard disk.
20 12 on may 24th, Seagate announced the acquisition of 65% shares of consumer Mac mobile hard disk manufacturer Lacie.
20 13 12.23 Seagate announced that it has signed a final agreement with data storage technology company Xyratex Ltd (Nasdaq: XRTX), in which the former will buy all the shares of the latter at a total price of 374 million us dollars, that is, 0/3.25 us dollars per share.