History (1992): Larsen & Toubro Sheduled Production of Low-End 3.5- and 5.25-Inch HDDs in India

Larsen & Toubro Limited (Madras, India) have scheduled production in India of low-end 3.5- and 5.25-inch HDDs based on a technical cooperation with the US Western Digital.

First, they will manufacture 20, then 40MB drives, units WD has stopped making.

L&T have the capacity to manufacture 60,000 drives per year and plans to expand the facility to 150,000.

This company produces floppy disk drives in collaboration with Y-E Data of Japan since 1985. It has manufactured about 100,000 of them.

In India, L & T is the sole manufacturer of HDDs with Sujata Data Products, in Bombay, that makes some of Seagate’s HDDs.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠56, published on September 1992.