IBM Bails Out of the Hard Drive Market

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IBM Bails Out of the Hard Drive Market

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 17, 2002 @03:56AM from the spinning-down dept.

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.

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Big Blue... by nubbie · 2002-04-17 03:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I guess they are shifting focus to there AS/400 support?

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1. Re:Big Blue... by MaxVlast · 2002-04-17 04:23 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  That wasn't offtopic, that was funny!
  
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WD by crumbz · 2002-04-17 04:01 · Score: 1, Offtopic

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....
Propz to all ACs by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-17 04:06 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Homo says "w00t!"
Re:deskstar? I doubt it by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-17 04:07 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Their products were shit and have been for a long time. I'm glad to see them gone.
Re:w00t! by bellings · 2002-04-17 04:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic

God damn you stupid motherfuckers... could you please fix this?

Or don't the people who read the site using the most popular browswer on the most popular operating system matter to you?

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Re:w00t! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-17 04:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

SCREW THE MSIE WINDOW USERS! I don't give a rat's ass about "POPULAR"; I care about "GOOD".
Re:w00t! by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-17 04:24 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Write to MS and have them fix your stupid browser, you stinking LEMMING.
Re:deskstar? I doubt it by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-17 04:28 · Score: -1, Offtopic

How is this offtopic? Their IDE drives have a KNOWN BAD MANUFACTURING PROCESS. We've had multiple Slashdot articles on them! My god, fucking moderators, I can't wait to see you assholes in metamoderation.
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Re:deskstar? I doubt it by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-17 04:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I modded you down, please send all your complains to karmelem@hispavista.com
My experience with IBM drives by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-17 04:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic
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Re:"Leaving" the market by avandesande · 2002-04-17 05:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

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

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Re:w00t! by bellings · 2002-04-17 06:22 · Score: 1, Offtopic

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?

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Re:Notebood Hard drives by rbeattie · 2002-04-17 07:13 · Score: 1, Offtopic

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.

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Re:"Leaving" the market by kubrick · 2002-04-17 19:46 · Score: 1, Offtopic

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

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