:: Company History ::

In the early hard disk drives, dedicated servo platters were used to map out a drives physical storage locations - cylinder, head and sector were actual coordinates inside the drive. We would source replacement media on the world market, run it through our customized certifiers to select the top grade defect free "servo platters", and then use a custom servo writer to physically record the servo pattern on the platter to be transferred into a freshly built drive in one of our production clean rooms. Support crews would rebuild the headset right down to the gimble and flexure; another crew would install, align and balance the platter stack. These parts would all be tested separately before being joined together to create a refurbished hard drive ready for media testing and burn in.

Nowadays, some things have changed but many of the fundamentals of hard drive technology remain the same. For instance, we still operate our own certifiers in house to grade and select media for refurbished drives (every platter is graded, serial numbered and entered into our production database). We still operate (manufacture, and sell) servo writers that are used to manufacture hard disk drives, rewrite servo code and recover user data that would be otherwise inaccessible. And we still maintain a tight focus on high standards through rigid engineering protocol and strict quality control policies.

Engineering Services

Over the years, Nortek has been involved in some very unique projects. We are first and foremost an electronics engineering company, and as such, there is almost no limit to the type of job we can take on. Trust us to handle all your repair and data recovery needs. But consider us to handle your specialized service requests - no job is too large or too small. All it takes is an email or phone call. Email us for more information.