A manufacturer of computer hardware, namely storage systems - various controllers and adapters, as well as various cables, accessories, related software and much more.
The company was founded in 1984 in Milpitas, California (Milpitas, CA, USA). Its first products were SCSI adapters. Gradually, the range of products was significantly expanded. She is best known to the average user as the creator of the once popular software for burning optical discs - Adaptec Easy CD Creator (since 2001 owned by the company Roxio).
Adaptec RAID 51245 |
For its history Adaptec absorbed several competitors, such as companies Trantor, Elipsan и Cogent. And in 2010 he Adaptec was purchased by the company PMC Sierra Inc. The transaction value was approximately US$34 million.