By Tony Hallett, 21 January 2000 17:10
NEWS Western Digital has announced it will quit the SCSI hard drive business - which makes up 11 per cent of the company's drive revenue - to concentrate on what it calls Internet-related data content management systems and management software. The company will still produce desktop (EIDE) drives. Despite pre-announcing better than expected second quarter losses of approximately $100m, the company has struggled in a business that has seen cut-throat price cutting in recent years. As a result of its new focus, it will shut its Rochester, Minnesota hard disk drive design centre which opened in 1994.
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