IBM out of the HDD business?

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Why does the IBM web site have links to the Hitachi web site for more
information about IBM's HDDs?
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IBM sold their drive business to Hitachi some time ago.
 
Why does the IBM web site have links to the Hitachi web site for more
information about IBM's HDDs?
 
Knack said:
Why does the IBM web site have links to the Hitachi web site for more
information about IBM's HDDs?
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Because they sold their drive division to Hitichi?



-WD
 
J.Clarke said:
IBM sold their drive business to Hitachi some time ago.


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How long ago? IBM continues to refer to "their" brand name HDDs such as IBM
Travelstar as if they were still making them.
 
Hitachi maybe doing warranty service for IBM hard drives
IBM was selling their harddrives with 3 years of warranty
and one can assume IBM pays Hitachi to cover that warranty.
 
I don't know, but from what I have read, good riddance. Choose Western
Digital instead, the best IMO.
 
I think the IBM is just continuing with their older designs,
until no one buys them anymore.

All new designs will come out of the joint adventure called
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
 
Hitachi maybe doing warranty service for IBM hard drives
IBM was selling their harddrives with 3 years of warranty
and one can assume IBM pays Hitachi to cover that warranty.
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Or Hitachi effectively took over that warranty
when they bought the hard drive operation.
 
I think the IBM is just continuing with their
older designs, until no one buys them anymore.
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Nope, that hard drive operation was flogged to Hitachi.

Stands out like dogs balls on the Hitachi site where there
are plenty of references to those older IBM drives.
All new designs will come out of the joint adventure
called Hitachi Global Storage Technologies.
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Yes, but its also the operation that looks
after the older IBM drives now too.
 
Papa said:
I don't know, but from what I have read, good riddance. Choose Western
Digital instead, the best IMO.
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Knowledgeable non-M$ OS users generally have the opposite opinion. WD
was if not remains the winmodem of hard drives.
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And what you (and also I) just said is, in itself, an opinion. <G>

In over14 years of PC usage - no WD HD has ever failed me - and I've
purchased many. Because of that, I'll continue to purchase WD. So my
opinion, singular though it may be, is based on my own personal experience -
plus that of many of those in my computer "family" in this part of the
country.
 
When was that? I bought a HP laptop 16 months ago and it has an IBM
'Travelstar' HDD in it.
 
Papa said:
In over14 years of PC usage - no WD HD has ever failed me - and I've
purchased many. Because of that, I'll continue to purchase WD. So my
opinion, singular though it may be, is based on my own personal experience -
plus that of many of those in my computer "family" in this part of the
country.
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I know personally absolutely no one who has ever owned more than one WD
who hasn't had at least 1 WD failure, and most have had closer to 100%
failures within 3 years, not that that's much different than anything
else lately. Everything in ATA is trashy QC now - it takes two to get
one good.

OTOH, don't take my word for the software failings of WD EIDE devices.
There's ample evidence on the internet to explain that WD amounts to the
winmodem of hard drives. If you need a hint, I'll give two words:
1-Linux; 2-developers. Oh, and that's besides what's in WD's own
documentation.
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Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/partitioningindex.html
 
Sorry, but I know far too many people who have had great success with WD HDs
to accept what you just said. I have purchased a dozen of them myself over
the years, none of which ever gave me a problem.

True, WDs will fail, but so will they all - and my experience has been that
the WDs fail less frequently than other brands.
 
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