NVIDIA Blogs: Segate Expects Manufacturing Throughput Time Reduction

Ensuring the quality of each one is a top priority, but not easy. The disk drive manufacturing process is incredibly complex. For example, it takes 1,400 steps just to manufacture the drive head. Even the smallest errors can lead to product flaws. "Mistakes are costly," said Raghavan Srinivasan, senior director of global marketing at Seagate, which makes more disk drives than any other manufacturer. "If there are any anomalies, we're going to end up with poor yield later on, and we wouldn't know that until the long process is completed."