From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Mon Aug 03 1998 - 18:00:55 EDT
Can i say "BS" here and not be thought too crude..? :-)
toshiba is NOT the first to market..
if so, please send me a 17mm tochiba 8.1gig or 16gig notebook hard drive..
that is a 2.5inch platter..
the drives look nothing alike..
well, let me qualify that..
up to the point i STOPPED BUYING toshiba drives, they had NO RESEMBLANCE al all to an IBM mfg.
drive..
PERIOD..!!!
if you have ANY small doubt, then take a look and compare specs on the toshiba and IBM HDD
sites..
OH, why did i stop buying toshiba drives..
i had about 22% failure rate on a bunch of 1.3 and 2.1gig, 19mm toshiba drives..
cost me money and my customers time and data recovering from these crashes..
:-)
Ray Bayles wrote:
> I think that is only partially true... most of the very large
> drives are made by Toshiba initially... but then IBM
> makes its own after the market is secure... and what
> is more interesting to me is that a great number of the
> Compaq hard drives have been made by IBM. I think
> they all switch around to keep inventory and competition
> up and raring.
>
> Toshiba is most probably the manufacturer of the new
> 6 Gb drive. And Toshiba made at least the first batch
> of the over 4 Gb...
>
> Ray
>
> Paul Khoury wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 02 Aug 1998 13:28:13 -0400, Bill Morrow wrote:
> >
> > >IBM drives are superior to toshiba drives..
> > >don't try to confuse me with any disagreeable facts, they just ARE..!
> > >:-)
> > >
> > >the toshiba most likely WILL fit the 600, but, in the past, even though
> > >the specs say they are the same, toshiba has, IN THE PAST, used the one
> > >pair of address pins that is unused for something entirely different than
> > >IBM does..
> > >
> > >so, like the guy says, you pays your money and you takes your chances..
> > >
> > >:-)
> > >
> > >relax, its only money..
> >
> > One thing I heard from an Easyserve tech (maybe not completely true)
> > is that most of IBM's notebook drives are made by Toshiba. Some of them look similiar, but
> > others look more like genuine IBM's.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents...
> >
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