Micropolis (company)

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Micropolis Corporation was a SCSI and ESDI hard drive manufacturing company located in Chatsworth, California. Micropolis also manufactured 5.25 inch floppy drives. The company was founded in 1976.

This company was one of the many hard drive manufacturers in the 1980s and 1990s that went out of business, merged, or closed their hard drive divisions; as a result of capacities and demand for products increased, and profits became hard to find. While Micropolis was able to hold on longer than many of the others, it ultimately sold its hard drive business to Singapore Technologies (now Temasek Holdings), who still market disks under the DigiSAFE brand.

After the disk business sale, Micropolis was reorganized as StreamLogic Corporation, which declared bankruptcy in 1997 amid securities fraud allegations. [1] [2] StreamLogic's RAIDION line of storage subsystems survive, now marketed by the RAIDION Systems division of Peripheral Technology Group. Its VIDEON video on demand technology was sold to Sumitomo Corporation. [3]

Emerging from the StreamLogic reorganization was yet another company named Hammer Storage Solutions, which specialized in SCSI controllers for the video production market. Its assets were sold in 2000 to Bell Microproducts.