Western Digital

 

What is in essence a Western Digital produced DPTA-371020 from the Deskstar 34GXP series, a familiar sight makes itself known, but with a more unusual story. This drive hails from the era where Western Digital really were on their knees, experiencing sharp losses. Like NEC had done only a couple years prior, Western Digital turned ... Read More

By the mid-90’s, Western Digital had gained a few years of experience building hard disk drives, after their acquisition of Tandon in late-1987. The Caviar 1170 was an example of these sleek new designs, among a number of other larger Caviar models. With a 3 year warranty, alongside incredibly respectable benchmark results, the Caviar series ... Read More

The Caviar Lite’s certainly weren’t Western Digital’s first 2.5″ drives, but they are among some of the earliest. Western Digital were facing stiff competition during the early-mid 90’s when concerning 2.5″ drives, leading to almost no further 2.5″ industry developments until the early 2000’s, with the company focusing on enterprise-grade models instead. Toshiba, Conner Peripherals, ... Read More

The largest capacity drive of the classic black-cased Caviar’s, coming in at just over 1.2GB in size. These have a slightly different seek-test compared to the usual earlier Caviar’s, which makes them a little more interesting. Aside from that, they’re much the same. Even when these are covered in bad sectors, they still work quite ... Read More