History 2001: Halo Data Devices Shuts Down Operations

Had problems with design of one-inch HDD.

By Jean Jacques Maleval | April 17, 2023 at 2:00 pm

Halo Data Devices has shut down its operations.

The company had problems with the design of its one-inch HDD.

Additionally, it had trouble releasing a product at a competitive price, after the successive drops in the cost of IBM’s Microdrive.

Big Blue, Marqlin, a spin-off of Halo, and Ritek are the only other remaining players working on these miniature devices.

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 166 on November 2001 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.