My point, IBM were the leaders in Enterprise drives, probably every patent for new HDD technology came from IBM.
IBM employees started many other HDD companies, but in the end non exist now. Seagate I think also started from IBM (don't quite me)
Hitachi, now play catchup and like sheep bring out drives behind everybody else.
Hitachi do make great drives, they are no longer the leaders in the HDD arena, I assume they must be loosing big server contracts to Seagate and WD
R&D is what I think killed Hitachi HDD's, forking out royalties to everybody but your self will get you in the end.
I had (still have in a junk box somewhere) a Deathstar model and it behaved for me till it got retired due size.
Seagate had huge FW issues with their desktop HDD's, but I would buy a Constellation any day.
WD always made great Desktop HDD's, but never anything SCSI, now they are catching up with RE4's but probably need Hitachi to compete with Seagate.
Anywho, I loved the old IBM's, owned a ton of them.
IBM employees started many other HDD companies, but in the end non exist now. Seagate I think also started from IBM (don't quite me)
Hitachi, now play catchup and like sheep bring out drives behind everybody else.
Hitachi do make great drives, they are no longer the leaders in the HDD arena, I assume they must be loosing big server contracts to Seagate and WD
R&D is what I think killed Hitachi HDD's, forking out royalties to everybody but your self will get you in the end.
I had (still have in a junk box somewhere) a Deathstar model and it behaved for me till it got retired due size.
Seagate had huge FW issues with their desktop HDD's, but I would buy a Constellation any day.
WD always made great Desktop HDD's, but never anything SCSI, now they are catching up with RE4's but probably need Hitachi to compete with Seagate.
Anywho, I loved the old IBM's, owned a ton of them.