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IBM never "rebadged" others drives (at least not in recent history). They may have "shared" technology with other drive manuf. (namely: seagate), but they were actually a major assembly OEM provider for other companies.
IBM's storage division was sold off to Hitachi about 2 years ago, many believe due to the Deskstar 75GXP fiasco in which they had inordinant failure rates they did not handle properly (at the time, the drive was *THE* drive in terms of capacity/speed, prior to this IBM had an absolute stellar reliability record).
We luckily never bought any effected 75GXP series drives. However, we have *many* (and I do mean MANY.. over 200) 60GXP and 120GXP models in server use 24/7. We have had exactly one 60GB model fail in over 3 years of using these drives. We still buy hitachi drives from time to time, depending on requirements - although our standard supplier is seagate in 95% of all cases. Honestly, drive failure isn't a huge problem here now that I think about it, I can count on one hand the number of drives we have replaced due to failure, and not even one has resulted in substantial data loss.
Man.. I shouldn't hahahahaha this. :/
-Phil
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