History (1991): Singapore HDD Land

Singapore, the hard disk drive land, exported 7.18 million Singapore dollars worth of HDDs in 1990 compared with 5.47 million in 1989, a 31% growth.

This amounts to about half of the WW HDD production.

The sales of these drives account for more than 7.5%t of the country’s total exports in 1990.

These units are mostly sent to USA, East Asia and to Europe.

Among the Singapore manufacturers there are Conner Peripherals, Integral Peripherals, Maxtor/MiniScribe, Micropolis, Seagate and Rodime.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠43, published on August 1991.