Download Seagate Logo — Seagate Technology ( NYSE : STX ) is a leading manufacturer American of hard drives , founded in 1979 and based in Scotts Valley , California . The company is registered in the Cayman Islands . Their hard drives are used in a variety of computers , from servers , desktops and laptops to other consumer devices such as PVRs , console Xbox from Microsoft and the online Creative Zen of digital audio players . Seagate was the largest manufacturer of computer hard drives in the world, lost place following the purchase of the storage division of Hitachi by Western Digital , and the oldest independent manufacturer still in business.
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Seagate Technology was founded by Alan Shugart (after the year off following his dismissal of Shugart Associates ) and Finis Conner . Its first product, launched in 1980 , was the ST-506 , the first hard drive that matched in shape factor of 5.25 inches of the (then famous) unit of “mini- floppy “Shugart. The unit was a success that followed the release of a version of 10 MB , the ST-412 . More