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What kind of capital is required to design a new hard drive?


I am wondering what is the capital investment a hard drive manufacturing company has when they decide to design a new hard drive? I know this could be really hard to predict or nail down because there is so many variables but any type of number would be nice. Is it a new line of hard drives, just a minor variation of another one. A complete redesign? Just anyone fact about what it costs in this feild would be interesting to know.

it is always re-design, why inventing a wheel. It takes years to come up with one. just like would you start a car from scratch or you will modify it.

There is always R&D department in those big company who tries to improve the hard drive and conference to share technology. Capital investment will be in the millions to design one phase.

someone starting from scratch would always be behind the technology curve of the established companies in this field - you need millions and lots of experienced people

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