TECHNOLOGY - Sept. 22, 1993
- Share via
Bigger and Better: Western Digital Corp. in Irvine has begun shipping production quantities of a hard disk drive with 540 megabytes of data, enough to store 270,000 single-spaced typewritten pages of paper.
The disk drive, which is expected to be one of the company’s primary weapons in a highly competitive industry, is targeted to customers who buy high-end personal computers with fast chips such as Intel Corp.’s Pentium processors.
Computer maker Gateway 2000 is Western Digital’s initial customer. To date, Western Digital has shipped more than 1 million disk drives from the previous generation of Caviar drives, which stored 340 megabytes.
Inside the business of entertainment
The Wide Shot brings you news, analysis and insights on everything from streaming wars to production — and what it all means for the future.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
