On 12/02/05 10:30 am I wrote:

>  > Further on, I'm not aware of any deal between IBM and Seagate in that
>  > respect. So, alas, it looks like someone has tweaked an Hitachi HD into
>  > a Seagate (or the other way around) in order to have you believed it's
>  > an "IBM" harddisk.
>  >
>  > Bottom line: if you see an IBM sticker on a HD, even do't think about it.
> 
> But in fact I see many drives around with IBM, Compaq or HP logos and
> part numbers that also have clearly recognizable Seagate model numbers,
> even if the name "Seagate" nowhere appears.
> 
> The point is that Seagate drives have such an outstanding reputation
> that other manufacturers relabel them for use in their own machines --
> although perhaps with custom firmware, which may for all I know include
> a different model number internally.

OTOH, I just opened up an old genuine IBM desktop to add a second drive 
(Seagate, of course, now that even their IDE drives have a 5-year 
warranty) and found that the original drive was a Western Digital.

SO here's my guess: it was WD for the cheap machines, Seagate for the 
servers. OR perhaps WD for IDE, Seagate for SCSI.

-=-
Alan


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