Maybe true in the consumer world, but Western Digital attempted to enter the SCSI enterprise market in the mid-late '90s and I'm told failed because their firmw

Maybe true in the consumer world, but Western Digital attempted to enter the SCSI enterprise market in the mid-late '90s and I'm told failed because their firmware's write speeds were not competitive compared to Seagate and IBM ... and they ended up buying the latter after it's disk division passed through Hitachi.