Data Storage

For over 30 years, EAG has dedicated instrumentation, research, and development efforts to the data storage industry, helping customers maintain quality and troubleshoot difficult problems. Our scientists and engineers help manufacturers to pursue state-of-the-art R &D, enabling them to produce high reliability data storage products, including magnetic disks and disk drive components, optical disks, flash memory devices, and other advanced data storage media and new media types.

Our vast array of materials testing services, analytical techniques and electronic testing services enable the data storage industry to evaluate materials, manage their supply chain, develop new products and investigate failures in a timely and cost-effective manner, to meet the needs of the needs of the industry.

Leveraging a large, in-house installed base of tools, EAG scientists and engineers support companies across the data storage sector in various stages of new product development and sustaining production. With domain expertise in electrical test, reliability, and failure analysis, we offer full system evaluations as well as component/IC-level analysis, including test and debug services.

How do we identify contaminants on disks? Turn to EAG. WE KNOW HOW.

HOW WE HELP

Application examples of our data storage testing capabilities

Magnetic media failure analysis
High precision ICP-OES for sputter target composition verification
Lubricant thickness testing
Lubricant replenishment
Lubricant and additive identification
Overcoat characterization
Magnetic layer identification and thickness testing
Drive teardown and inspection
Failure analysis
Outgassing analysis
Organic contaminant analysis
Disk quality program
Operating drive contamination monitoring
Contamination analysis and materials characterization and electrical FA for flash memory devices