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Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025 by gethly on Saturday February 14, 2026 @02:24AM (#47012428)
"back in my day", seagate was "the shit". only much later, hitachi drives came to be popular and wd, sort of.
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Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025 by burnt-resistor on Saturday February 14, 2026 @11:36AM (#47015878)
By Hitachi, you mean IBM Ultrastar. IBM drives tended to be the best.
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Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025 by ThePowerOfFuet on Saturday February 14, 2026 @02:47PM (#47017680)
>IBM drives tended to be the best.

The IBM Deskstar 75GXP entirely earned its nickname of Deathstar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_fa...

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Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025 by burnt-resistor on Monday February 23, 2026 @10:48AM (#47123897)
I never touched those because IBM was at a low point and their retail PC stuff tended to suck. Always enterprise gear like Ultrastar U2W drives.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/overview-182gb-and-91gb-10...

IBM San Jose/Almaden is where HDD tech originally came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_305_RAMAC

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Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025 by gethly on Monday February 16, 2026 @03:28AM (#47032401)
nope. i don't even think ibm were being widely sold at all. ultrastar rings a bell, somewhat, but definitely not ibm hard drives. and i'm talking early 2000s here.
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