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Post #50,752
by deSitter
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9/6/02 12:17:27 AM
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New Re: All brands fail at a fairly high rate.
I exactly concur - early IBM SCSI tended to fail. I think IBM SCSI were actually made by Seagate. Seagates have failed more often than any other drives I can remember. The last of the Model 95s were sold with Maxtor SCSI drives.

BTW someone mentioned Quantum Atlas - these are now Maxtor Atlas (just bought one :).

Did you say IBM is giving up its disk business? Why?

Also exact same experience with those great Fujitsu tank drives (beige metal case). One interesting them about them - they seemed to ship with the write cache disabled. Adaptec Ez-SCSI could be used to turn it on, with dramatic effects.
-drl
Post #50,768
by Andrew Grygus
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9/6/02 2:48:18 AM
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New Yes, IBM is dumping hard disks
Their hard disk business is going to a "joint venture" with Hitachi, but the implication was that IBM was not the major partner.

The stated reason is profitability, but I've also read about some stuff in IBM's labs that could obsolete hard disks. Perhaps it's a little farther along than recent articles have indicated.
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Post #50,772
by Ashton
9/6/02 2:58:35 AM
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New *Ulp*____What a nonsequitur___ stock assessment time?
Post #50,821
by deSitter
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9/6/02 10:33:26 AM
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New Re: Yes, IBM is dumping hard disks
I still find it curious, because AFAIK IBM is mostly responsible for the basic magnetic materials and magneto-resistive head research that made giant drives possible. See this graphic:

<img src="[link|http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/ipl/oem/images/techimages/fig1.jpg"|http://www.storage....es/fig1.jpg"]>

-drl
     FIRST! - (admin) - (29) - Sept. 4, 2002, 03:40:54 PM EDT
         SECOND! - (Yendor) - (28) - Sept. 4, 2002, 04:40:57 PM EDT
             THIRD? - (Simon_Jester) - (27) - Sept. 4, 2002, 04:41:58 PM EDT
                 LEFT! - (mmoffitt) - (26) - Sept. 4, 2002, 04:43:54 PM EDT
                     RIGHT? - (hnick) - (25) - Sept. 4, 2002, 04:50:12 PM EDT
                         ON! - (tuberculosis) - (24) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:11:28 AM EDT
                             Carnivore, doubtless. -NT - (mmoffitt) - Sept. 4, 2002, 05:04:17 PM EDT
                             Re: ON! - (admin) - (22) - Sept. 4, 2002, 05:05:46 PM EDT
                                 Thanks! - (slugbug) - Sept. 4, 2002, 05:57:52 PM EDT
                                 Dang! - (mmoffitt) - Sept. 4, 2002, 06:02:13 PM EDT
                                 Was it something I said? - (tablizer) - (1) - Sept. 4, 2002, 06:11:33 PM EDT
                                     It was you. - (mmoffitt) - Sept. 4, 2002, 06:26:30 PM EDT
                                 Is that all? - (Andrew Grygus) - (17) - Sept. 4, 2002, 11:03:02 PM EDT
                                     Re: Is that all? - (deSitter) - (13) - Sept. 4, 2002, 11:39:24 PM EDT
                                         I think I have never met a Seagate drive . . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (12) - Sept. 4, 2002, 11:52:42 PM EDT
                                             Re: I think I have never met a Seagate drive . . . - (deSitter) - Sept. 5, 2002, 12:08:43 AM EDT
                                             Re: I think I have never met a Seagate drive . . . - (pwhysall) - (10) - Sept. 5, 2002, 01:54:13 AM EDT
                                                 Bad hard drives - (orion) - (7) - Sept. 5, 2002, 10:06:19 AM EDT
                                                     Re: Bad hard drives - (pwhysall) - (6) - Sept. 5, 2002, 11:18:07 AM EDT
                                                         Mine did - (orion) - Sept. 5, 2002, 10:38:24 PM EDT
                                                         All brands fail at a fairly high rate. - (Andrew Grygus) - (4) - Sept. 5, 2002, 11:06:18 PM EDT
                                                             Re: All brands fail at a fairly high rate. - (deSitter) - (3) - Sept. 6, 2002, 12:17:27 AM EDT
                                                                 Yes, IBM is dumping hard disks - (Andrew Grygus) - (2) - Sept. 6, 2002, 02:48:18 AM EDT
                                                                     *Ulp*____What a nonsequitur___ stock assessment time? -NT - (Ashton) - Sept. 6, 2002, 02:58:35 AM EDT
                                                                     Re: Yes, IBM is dumping hard disks - (deSitter) - Sept. 6, 2002, 10:33:26 AM EDT
                                                 Reminds me of an idiot... - (inthane-chan) - (1) - Sept. 5, 2002, 10:51:24 AM EDT
                                                     Similar phenomenon - (drewk) - Sept. 5, 2002, 10:57:50 AM EDT
                                     Re: Is that all? - (jlalexander) - (2) - Sept. 5, 2002, 07:59:40 AM EDT
                                         FAT bread failed - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Sept. 5, 2002, 07:11:32 PM EDT
                                             Interesting. Pierre is in the Charlotte (NC) LUG. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Sept. 5, 2002, 08:52:54 PM EDT

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