Western digital-a great hard drive

Western digital needs no introduction. It is world wide known that they are a great brand when it comes to hard disks. People are buying their product just by their name. They enjoy a huge customer loyalty and are having huge market base.

Western digital is a pioneer in hard disk industry and they are very popular because they keep on doing innovations in their products. They keep on adding new technologies in their products and keep on updating their hard drives. Their list of innovations is pretty long. In the year 1971 they had introduced WD1402A and it was first UART having single chip. In the year 1976 they came up with WD1771 which was first single chip floppy disk controller and after that in the year 1981 WD1010 was introduced which was single chip ST 506 controller. In the year 1986 they co developed ATA having Compaq and having control data. In the year 1986 they have introduced WD33C93 which was the first SCSI interface chip. In the year 1987 they have introduced two things WD37C65 which is first single chip PC and WD7000 first ISA SCSI controller. They had introduced caviar drives in the year 1990 and in 2001 first IDE drive having 8 MB buffer was introduced. They introduced SATA drive which runs at 10.000 rpm in 2003.

So, all these innovations prove that western digital corporation is not constant with the passage of time they are making new changes in their products according to the time and according to customer’s preference. This shows how advanced and customer centric they are. These are the reasons of their huge popularity and their huge brand name. If a company values customer preference and changes according to their preference then customer will also value them. They keep their customer a topmost priority.

Western digital knows how to take care of customers and due to this reason they provide other utilities with their hard drives as well.

With other things, they provide data lifeguard tools also. These data lifeguard tools are utility suites that are used for setting up of hard disks. They run on DOS and Microsoft windows operating systems. One can download it free of cost and can use it freely.

It has amazing features as it is 11th version.

• It does formatting and partitioning of hard disks.
• It copies files in between disk partitions.
• It displays number, type and size of partitions.
• For a large number of western digital hard drives it displays installation manuals having jumper settings.
• It displays disk information which is technical like firmware revision, PIO mode support, PIO cycle time, ATA supported, IORDY support

They provide data lifeguard diagnostics also. Data lifeguard diagnostics is a kind of software utility that is used for determining hard drive condition. It determines hard drive condition at the physical level. It has features like

• Viewing and printing test results
• Writing zero to drive
• Extended and quick test

So just go and buy these drives and enjoy other benefits as well.