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"back in my day", seagate was "the shit". only much later, hitachi drives came to be popular and wd, sort of.

• burnt-resistor 8mo ago
  By Hitachi, you mean IBM Ultrastar. IBM drives tended to be the best.
  • ThePowerOfFuet 8mo ago
    >IBM drives tended to be the best. The IBM Deskstar 75GXP entirely earned its nickname of Deathstar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_failures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_fa...
    • burnt-resistor 8mo ago
      I never touched those because IBM was at a low point and their retail PC stuff tended to suck. Always enterprise gear like Ultrastar U2W drives. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/overview-182gb-and-91gb-10000-rpm-wide-ultra2-scsi-hard-disk-drives https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/overview-182gb-and-91gb-10... IBM San Jose/Almaden is where HDD tech originally came from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_305_RAMAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_305_RAMAC
  • gethly 8mo ago
    nope. i don't even think ibm were being widely sold at all. ultrastar rings a bell, somewhat, but definitely not ibm hard drives. and i'm talking early 2000s here.