favorite ATA/SATA hard disk brand?

Alex Zbyslaw xfb52 at dial.pipex.com
Thu Mar 23 13:45:41 UTC 2006


Robert Huff wrote:

>Alex Zbyslaw writes:
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>> IBM discovered this to their cost when one of their Deskstar
>> models turned out to be scrap disguised as a disk, and got a
>> Class action lawsuit in return.  Then they sold the Deskstar line
>> to Hitachi :-)
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>	Did they only sell the Deskstar line?  I heard it was the
>entire disk drive operation, and I have had excellent results with
>their SCSI products.
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I'm sure they did sell everything, but it wouldn't have had the same 
dramatic effect to say that :-)  IMHO, the duff deskstar was an anomaly 
and it certainly wouldn't (and hasn't!) put me off buying Hitachi.

--Alex



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