However, the WD integrated circuit that arguably drove Western's forward integration was the FD1771, one of the first single-chip floppy disk drive formatter/controllers, which could replace significant amounts of TTL logic. The MCP-1600 was used to implement DEC's LSI-11 system, the WD16, and their own Pascal MicroEngine microcomputer which ran the UCSD p-System Version III and UCSD Pascal. Western Digital introduced several products during the late 1970s, including the MCP-1600 multi-chip, microcoded CPU. In 1973, Western Digital established its Malaysian plant, initially to manufacture semiconductors. Chuck Missler joined Western Digital as chairman and chief executive in June 1977, and became the largest shareholder of Western Digital.
After this, Emerson Electric withdrew their support of the company. The oil crisis of the mid-1970s and the bankruptcy of its biggest calculator customer, Bowmar Instrument, changed its fortunes, however, and in 1976 Western Digital declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Around July 1971, it adopted its current name and soon introduced its first product, the WD1402A UART.ĭuring the early 1970s, the company focused on making and selling calculator chips, and by 1975, Western Digital was the largest independent calculator chip maker in the world. It rapidly became a specialty semiconductor maker, with start-up capital provided by several individual investors and industrial giant Emerson Electric. It was originally based in Santa Ana, California, and would go on to become one of the largest technology firms headquartered in Orange County. Phillips, a Motorola employee, as General Digital, initially a manufacturer of MOS test equipment. Western Digital was founded on April 23, 1970, by Alvin B.
The storage fiend in me salivates at the thought of 2TB in a single 3.5-inch hard-disk drive. And WD’s NoTouch ramp-load technology keeps the recording head from touching the disk media. IntelliSeek optimizes seek speeds to enable lower power consumption, noise, and vibration. IntelliPower, according to WD, adjusts the balance of spin speed, transfer rate, and caching algorithms for optimal balance between performance and power consumption. StableTrac reduces vibration by securing the motor shaft at both ends, and this in turn permits accurate head tracking during read and write operations. The 2TB drive has several WD technologies inside that the company says enable this model to achieve its balance of price and performance. On each of those tests, its results were off those of our performance leaders by a dozen seconds or less. For example, it completed our “write files and folders” test in 112 seconds and our “write large files” test in 92 seconds. On other core metrics, though, the 2TB drive performed very competitively.
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This model lagged behind our performance leaders (the Western Digital RE3 Enterprise 500GB and the WD VelociRaptor) on some results–most notably, the write-intensive disk imaging test that we perform as part of PC WorldBench 6.
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