Hard Drive Manufacturers and Models

Abstract

The purpose of this is to provide valuable information about the information related to the hard drives. This document focus on information about hard drives manufacturers, models, capacities, type and features.

Some of major hard drive manufacturers are:

Fujitsu

Fujitsu is manufacturer of high performance SCSI drives mainly used in the server market. Fujitsu drives are available in various capacities for the enterprise (servers and workstations) and notebook computer environments. The available hard drives by Fujitsu are Mobile Hard Drives and Enterprise Hard Drives.

Seagate

Seagate is manufacturer of a wide range of PC hard drives and high performance SCSI hard drives. Seagate deals with Enterprise, Personal, Notebook or Consumer Electronics, delivering innovative and reliable storage solutions. Seagate deals in Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA and Fiber Channel for hard drives. Seagate hard drives include drives for High Performance Servers, Main Stream Servers, Entry Level Servers, Note Book PCs and Desktop PCs. The available hard drives by Seagate are Enterprise Storage, Personal Storage, Notebook Storage and Consumer Electronics Storage drives.

Western Digital

Western Digital is maker of the popular Caviar line of PC hard drives. It mainly deals in Enterprise Drives, Desktop Drives, External Drives, Mobile Drives and CE Drives.

Maxtor

Maxtor hard drives are offered with diverse combinations of capacity, performance and entry features to meet a wide spectrum of needs for Desktop and enterprise storage alike. Performance and capacity is the motto of Maxtor.

Hitachi

Hitachi is dedicated to provide wide range of hard disk drive solutions to satisfy all of today's demanding computing needs. During the designing and manufacturing of hard drives, Hitachi focuses mainly on how to enhance the performance, functionality and reliability of disk drives, and how to create storage devices that are better suited to new emerging applications and new customer requirements.

Quantum

Quantum hard disk drives (HDD) target mainly the desktop and enterprise clientele. Quantum’s designed hard drives provide exceptional performance and reliability for workstations , servers and storage subsystems.

NEC

NEC's hard drives provide portability and convenient installation. NEC hard drives use both serial and parallel interfaces. NEC focuses mainly on performance enhancement, functionality and reliability of disk drives, manufacturing of hard drives that are best suited for new emerging applications and new customer requirements.

Samsung

Samsung Hard Disk Drives come in five main series. These series comply with Desktop to mobile environments and equally possess room for high streaming environments as game consoles. It provides all the drive features needed to store and play back a limitless amount of digital media content on the web. Samsung newly introduces 3 disk technology to exceed PC users’ expectation.

Toshiba

Toshiba is the undisputed leader in small form factor hard disk drives(HDD). It leads the market in the development, design and manufacturing of small form factor 0.85-inch, 1.8-inch and 2.5-inch hard disk drives. Built with the performance and reliability characteristics, the Toshiba’s hard disk drives have become the drive of choice in today's most popular MP3 players, notebooks, automotive jukebox systems, and portable handheld GPS units.