Re: [Thinkpad] Hard Drive Buys and Don'ts

I doubt that approval had anything to do with it. I would assume, rather, that Hitachi
supplying IBM with drives was a major part of the deal when IBM sold its drive division to
Hitachi.

Deanna

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony R. Gold" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 16:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Hard Drive Buys and Don'ts
...

My own anecdote is that several of the Thinkpads I'm using came with IBM
supplied Hitachi drives but not one had an IBM supplied Toshiba. ...
[other than IBM approves of Hitachi drives - which itself is quite interesting.]

...

Tony

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