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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.

By Hitachi, you mean IBM Ultrastar. IBM drives tended to be the best.

>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_fa...

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-10...

IBM San Jose/Almaden is where HDD tech originally came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_305_RAMAC

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.

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