Rodime was a hard disk manufacturer based in Glenrothes, Scotland. The company was founded in 1979 by a group of employees of Burroughs Corporation.
In 1981, the company started manufacturing 5.25” HDD OEM disk drives. Since then the company achieved a healthy growth rate. In 1983, Rodime became the first manufacturer of 3.5” HDD products.
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Shugart Associates was a computer peripheral manufacturer. The company was founded in 1973 by Alan Shugart. In 1977, Xerox purchased Shugart Associates. Xerox sold the brand name and some of the product line to Narlinger Group in 1986.
Shugart Associates dominated the floppy disk market in the late 1970s. It also became famous for introducing minifloppy [...]
Hard Drive Recovery - Quantum Bigfoot
Bigfoot is the name of the hard disk marketed by Quantum Corporation in the mid 1990s. Compared to typical hard disk drives, Bigfoot drives were larger in size. They measured 5.25” wide while the typical hard drives were 3.5” in diameter. Bigfoot drives were made in this size assuming that PC [...]
Hard Drive Recovery - Logical Block Addressing
Logical block addressing (LBA) is a method to address hard disk location by a single sector number rather than the cylinder-head-sector (CHS). CHS scheme did not map well to devices except hard disks. They were used in early MFM and RLL drives.
LBA was designed to support ATA/IDE drives when they [...]
Hard Drive Recovery - Zone Bit Recording
Zone bit recording (ZBR) is a method of optimizing the hard disk drives to enable more sectors per track on their outer tracks than in the inner tracks. This process is also known as zone density recording or multiple zone recording.
Hard disks are made of several disks called platters. Each [...]
Hard Drive Recovery - Cylinder-Head-Sector
Cylinder-head-sector (CHS) is a method of assigning addresses to a block of data on a hard disk drive. It was used with early hard disk drives such as MFM and RLL drives with capacity below 550 MB. For example, a CHS value of 500 x 4 x 32 would mean 500 tracks [...]
Hard Drive Recovery - Hitachi Deskstar
Deskstar is a product line of computer hard drives, originally produced by IBM. Hitachi bought IBM’s hard drive division in 2002. Since then Hitachi is the sole manufacturer of the product. The last Deskstar product produced by IBM was the 180GXP. Hitachi still sells some of the models produced by IBM, [...]
Hard Drive Recovery - WiMAX
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) is a wireless data transmission technology that uses a variety of transmission modes. The name “WiMAX” was coined by the WiMAX Forum, which promotes conformity and interoperability of the standard. The forum defines WiMAX as “a standards-based technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless [...]
Hard Drive Recovery - Apple II Series
The Apple II is a series of microcomputer products introduced by Apple Inc in 1977. Apple II was the successor of Apple I, a limited production bare circuit board computer for electronics hobbyists. Apple II was among the first and the most successful home computers available in the market those [...]
Hard Drive Recovery - Universal Plug and Play
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) refers to a set of networking protocols introduced by the UPnP Forum. The UPnP architecture allows peer-to-peer networking of PCs, networked home appliances, consumer electronic and wireless devices. It is a distributed, open architecture protocol based on established standards such as TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, [...]
