Editing JT Storage (section)

===First products===

JTS initially focused on a new 3" form-factor drive for [[laptop|laptops]]. The 3" form factor allowed a larger drive capacity for laptops with the existing technology. [[Compaq]] was actively engaged in qualifying these drives and built several laptops with this form factor drive. Lack of a second source was a major obstacle for this new form factor to gain a foothold; JTS licensed the form factor to [[Western Digital]] to attempt to remedy this problem. Eventually, as 2.5" drives became cheaper to build, interest in the 3" form factor waned, and JTS and WD stopped the project in 1998.{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}}

JTS by then had become a source of cheap, medium-performance 3.5" drives with 5400 RPM spindles. The drives, produced in a factory in [[India]] (the factory was in the Madras Export Processing Zone in the suburbs of the Southern Indian city of Madras, now known as [[Chennai]]), were known for poor reliability. Failure rates were very high and quality control was inconsistent: good drives were very good, still running after 5 years, whereas bad drives almost always failed within a few weeks. Because of their low-tier reputation, JTS drives were rare in brand-name PCs and most frequently turned up in home-built and whitebox PCs. Product lines included Palladium and Champion internal IDE hard drives.

The basic design of their drives was done by [[Kalok]] for [[TEAC Corporation|TEAC]] in the early 1990s.<ref name="usp5446609">
{{Cite patent
 |country=US
 |number=5446609
 |status=patent
 |title=Low profile disk drive assembly
 |gdate=1995-08-29
 |fdate=1992-10-15
 |assign1=TEAC Corporation
 |assign2=Pont Peripherals Corporation
}}</ref><ref name="usp5886850">{{Cite patent
 |country=US
 |number=5886850
 |status=patent
 |title=High capacity, low profile disk drive system
 |gdate=1999-03-23
 |fdate=1995-05-15
 |assign1=TEAC Corporation
 |assign2=DZU Corporation
}}</ref> TEAC used the design as part of a removable HDD system,<ref name="hdd0040">{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.teac.com/DSPD/pdf/hdd0040a.pdf
 |title       = SD3250N, SD3360N, SD3540N (Removable Hard Disk Drives) - Installation guides and CMOS Setup parameters
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20061111044628/http://www.teac.com/DSPD/pdf/hdd0040a.pdf
 |archive-date = 2006-11-11
}}</ref> which was also sold under the Kalok name. After Kalok failed in 1994, JTS hired its founder as their chief technical officer, and licensed the patents involved from TEAC and Pont Peripherals.<ref name="jts-1996-s4">{{cite web
 |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/941167/0000950153-96-000413.txt
 |title=Form S-4: Registration under the Securities Act of 1933: JTS Corporation
 |date=1996-06-22
 |accessdate=2008-01-25
}}</ref>