IBM Bails Out of the Hard Drive Market

DJ STORM writes: "IBM has decided to exit the hard drive market citing the market has become too competitive.They plan to sell 70% of the their HD business to Hitachi. The new company name is unknown. One has to wonder if this has anything to do with IBM's troubled Deskstar GXP series." IBM will still have part ownership of the resulting venture, but it sounds like no more Deskstars. Update: 04/17 16:33 GMT by T : You may also find interesting some older posts about IBM's work on increasing hard drive storage (1, 2, 3); hopefully, the new company will continue that R&D effort.

Comments

WD

[crumbz]

I just bought a WD 7200 RM ATA-100 60GB drive yesterday for $89.99. That's money that Big Blue could of used to prop up their share price....

Re:"Leaving" the market

[avandesande]

This is like one of Ozzy Osbourne's 'last tours'

Re:w00t!

[bellings]

You know what pisses me off the most?

I spent a half hour writing a patch to fix page widening posts, and the fucking lameness filter won't allow it.

Who the hell should I send the patch to? Will there be a chance in hell that anyone would ever read it?

Or should I just give up, and shove the line

127.0.0.1 slashdot.org

into my /etc/hosts file, and be done with this shitty site forever?

Re:Notebood Hard drives

[rbeattie]

My Dell Lattitude IBM hard drive is so loud I hear it in my sleep... I don't have the money to replace it right now so I have to live with it. I thought it was the fan (and that the fan was broken) for quite a while, until one day I read Slashdot and realized that it was the HD...

My wife's got Fujitsu drive in her matching Dell and it's quiet as, well, nothing. You can't hear it.

I HATE THIS NOISE.

-Russ

Re:"Leaving" the market

[kubrick]

Aren't many IBM PCs these days (high-end) rebadged Taiwanese products? (Or was that only their laptops?)