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JBOD (just a bunch of disks or just a bunch of drives) is an architecture using multiple hard drives exposed as individual devices.Hard drives may be treated independently or may be combined into one or more logical volumes using a volume manager like LVM or mdadm, or a device-spanning filesystem like btrfs; such volumes are usually called "spanned" or "linear | SPAN | BIG".
Seagate Technology Holdings plc is an American data storage company. It was incorporated in 1978 as Shugart Technology and commenced business in 1979. [2] Since 2010, the company has been incorporated in Dublin, Ireland, with operational headquarters in Fremont, California, United States.
Stephen J. "Steve" Luczo (born February 28, 1957) is the chairman of the board at Seagate.In January 2009, Luczo, Seagate's chairman, was appointed president and chief executive officer, returning him to the role he held at Seagate from 1998 to 2004. [1]
Then he and Finis Conner started Shugart Technology in 1979, which soon changed its name to Seagate Technology. In 1991, Shugart resumed his tenure as CEO of Seagate. Seagate went on to become the world’s largest independent manufacturer of disk drives and related components. In July 1998, Shugart resigned his positions with Seagate. [8]
Seagate pioneered the 5.25-inch hard disk drive (HDD) form factor. The first 5.25-inch HDD was the ST506. Its capacity was 5 MB. By 1984, there were differences with Seagate management, with Conner arguing that there was not enough emphasis on customer requests. [2] Conner left Seagate, with $12 million in Seagate stock, to enjoy a semi-retirement.
ST3000DM001 as external hard drives in retail packaging. Anand Lal Shimpi of AnandTech noted that the ST3000DM001 is "a bit faster in sequential performance than the old Barracuda XT, at lower power consumption" and that "Seagate appears to have optimized the drive's behavior for lower power rather than peak performance".
SyQuest Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYQT) [1] was an early entrant into the hard disk drive market for personal computers.The company was founded on January 27, 1982 [2] by Syed Iftikar who had been a founder of Seagate, [3] along with Ben Alaimo, Bill Krajewski, Anil Nigam and George Toldi. [4]
The Seagate Barracuda is a series of hard disk drives and later solid state drives produced by Seagate Technology that was first introduced in 1993. [ 3 ] The line initially focused on high-capacity, high-performance SCSI hard drives until introducing ATA models in 1999 and SATA models in 2002.