The Hard Business of Selling Hard Drive Platters

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.

Comments

Re:Editors need to wake up

[Mad Marlin]

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

I vote for Winchester disk.

Re:Cyclical

[WaKall]

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

"pixie dust"

[kesuki]

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.

Do they really mean what they say?

[leonbrooks]

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.