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ThePowerOfFuet 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

>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...

burnt-resistor 5 months ago [–]

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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