It was a dark and stormy night when snipped-for-privacy@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>> I understand IBM sold off its hard disk drive line recently; I don't
>> know why. Peripherals used to be quite profitable.
> Whether there's a connection or not, I don't know. But they sold the
> line to Hitachi shortly after what appeared to be defects in their
> 60GXP and 75GXP models of drives. These "DeskStar" drives had become
> widely known as "DeathStar" drives, due to drive failures.
> Dave
Oh yes, I remember the DeathStar disks. Lost a number of them on critical machines.