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

600 series came with Hitachi drives with FRU numbers all the time, nothing
new.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Deanna Berman" <dberman@4dv.net>
To: "Anthony R. Gold" <thinkpadlist@ahjg.co.uk>; "Thinkpad Mailing List"
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Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 6:49 PM
Subject: 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
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> ...
>
> 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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