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IBM Bails Out of the Hard Drive Market

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. FIRE by Sir+Beavis · · Score: -1, Troll

    Heheheheheheheheheh that was pretty cool
    yeah firefirefirefirefirefirefire!

    1. Re:FIRE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Uh, like... Shut up asswipe. Don't make me come over there and kick your ass, or something...

      Uh... Huh huh... Yeah.

    2. Re:FIRE by Sir+Beavis · · Score: -1, Troll

      Shutup bunghole! Are you threatening me? I am the Great Cornholio! I am from Lake Titicaca! You will give me tp for my bunghole! My people, they are without holio

  2. GOOD!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    IBM's suck and shout out to asciipr0n on dalnet.

  3. FP? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FP I am eLEET!

  4. FIRE!! by Sir+Beavis · · Score: -1, Troll

    Heheheheheheheheheheheheheheh that was pretty cool dilhole. Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah firefirefirefirefirefirefirefirefirefirefirefirefi refire!!!

  5. Re:This is A Shock. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have two western digitals and one deskstar, all three 7200 rpm ata 100.

    hdparm (I'm at home or I'd paste the actual output) reports the western digitals at 24 MBper second but the "deathstar" is getting 45. I can't remember how the drives are configured but I remember putting hdparm -d1 - oh hell I don't remember what I put.

  6. Re:This is A Shock. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    rofl

    Western Digital has a failure rate right behind IBM.

    IBM
    Western Digital
    Maxtor

    Enjoy!

  7. Re:Good Riddance... by JThaddeus · · Score: 0, Troll

    I just wish they had done it in 1985 when they put that piece of crud 20MB in the first PC-ATs! I was installing some 50+ PC-ATs overseas at the time and IBM's harddrives were nothing but trouble. We finally had to go with dual-floppy systems until--months later--IBM sent us Seagate drives.

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