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The Hard Business of Selling Hard Drive Platters

Posted by timothy on from the weep-for-them dept.

redfieldp writes: "This is a pretty interesting story about the 'last' HD manufacturer in the U.S., and reasons why the industry is ailing ..." There's quite a bit of interesting hard-drive history in here, too.

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  1. Editors need to wake up by premier · · Score: 1, Funny

    The title uses "Hard Drive", while the editorial text says "Hard-Drive". Pick one?

    1. Re:Editors need to wake up by Mad+Marlin · · Score: 4, Funny
      The title uses "Hard Drive", while the editorial text says "Hard-Drive". Pick one?

      I vote for Winchester disk.

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  2. heh by hatter3bdev · · Score: 3, Funny

    The problem is they just work too well and nobody pays any attention.

    I Guess we know why windows is so popular then :-)

  3. My experiences don't jibe with yours by Gekko · · Score: 0, Funny

    IBM's drives are usually rock solid. They often outlast there competors by a long shot. They had a series of about 1 or 2 drives, I forget which models Im sure someone will remember. I find that in most of my servers IBM drives last longer and perform better.

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  4. Re:Good for you. I do. by FleaPlus · · Score: 3, Funny

    So how many gigs of data on your drives is actually legal?

  5. Re:Cyclical by WaKall · · Score: 4, Funny

    Clearly, failing harddrive companies should turn to writing bloated sofware.

  6. Re:Bad Puns by Trinn · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's obvious. +0 Punny.
    Go ahead, tell me you didn't see that coming.

  7. Re:Komag doesn't make disk drives by LadyJessica · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's a shame that people are willing to pay more for a pair of shoes then [sic.] a disk drive to store their data on!

    Are you sure? I think I'd rather go without a hard drive than go barefoot all the time. I think I'd rank shoes higher. Have you ever walked around town barefoot? Watch that broken glass on the sidewalk! You can't go to restaurants either. "No shoes, no shirt, no service." :-)

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  8. "pixie dust" by kesuki · · Score: 4, Funny

    As stated in the article, IBM had recently started to use "Pixie dust" to push the supermagnetic barrier to squeeze more data on each platter. So obviously, they ran afowl of the Pixie's union, and had to sell the business to hitachi, which relies on the gremlin's union to keep the pixies in-line.

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  9. Do they really mean what they say? by leonbrooks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Paraburdoo Tavern once had a sign saying `No admission without shirt and shoes. Tank-tops and thongs not acceptable' until shortly after somebody complied, turning up in a shirt and shoes. Only.

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  10. In other news... by allanj · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bill Gates reports that no-one will ever need more than 640KB of memory. Wait a minute - that was like two decades ago? Wow.

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  11. Re:Why the HDD business is ailing... by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 3, Funny

    They actually already have it. It's called windows CEMENT. The power of CE. The stability of ME. The User-Freindlyness of NT