Finis Conner left Seagate in early 1985 and founded Conner Peripherals, which originally specialized in small-form-factor drives for portable computers. Conner Peripherals also entered the tape drive business with its purchase of Archive Corporation. After ten years as an independent company, Conner Peripherals was acquired by Seagate in a 1996 merger.[51]
In 2005, Seagate acquired Mirra, Inc., a producer of personal servers for data recovery. It also acquired ActionFront Data Recovery Labs, which provides data recovery services.[52] In 2006 Seagate acquired Maxtor in an all-stock deal worth $1.9 billion, continued to market the separate Maxtor brand.[53] The following year Seagate acquired EVault[52] and MetaLINCS, later rebranded i365.[54]
In 2014 Seagate acquired Xyratex a storage systems company.[55] The same year it acquired LSI's Flash Enterprise PCIe flash and SSD controller products, and its engineering capabilities.[56]