Read Rite Information

Read-Rite Corp. was the world's top supplier of thin-film recording heads, a component used in Winchester disk drives to read data stored on a computer's hard disk. Read-Rite also manufactured the head stack assemblies that house these thin-film recording heads, holding a small but growing market share in that segment. The company's client base consisted of other manufacturers of computer components, including Western Digital, Maxtor Corp., Conner Peripherals, Inc., Digital Equipment Corp., NEC, Quantum, and Micropolis Corp.