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Correlating my memory to actual events, anyone else remember the "Deathstar" issue back when the IBM Deskstar drives had that head-drop failure? I'm fairly sur
by mjevans 6y ago
Correlating my memory to actual events, anyone else remember the "Deathstar" issue back when the IBM Deskstar drives had that head-drop failure? I'm fairly sure that the Ultrastar line is a successor of that lineage (in marketing terms at least).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives#Manufacturing_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_hard_disk_drives#Ma...
- ksec 6y agoI do. I remember it fairly well. And due to the whole Death Star fiasco, IBM absolutely over engineer it for their successive Hard Drives. Which is what ultimately lead to today's UltraStar.