yawetaG wrote:BitWrangler wrote:hell there's even a Deathstar around somewhere that's still apparently all good and working
Not all IBM Deskstar drives suck. AFAIK only the ones manufactured during a relatively short period around 1999-2000. The later, larger drives work entirely fine.
Right, the later Hitachis were some cheap/fast/good unicorns, I have ones of those too, but the one I was referring to was definitely in the ballpark, because it's a 30GB, so too bigs to be much earlier, too small to be much later. I will check the exact dates on it when it resurfaces.
Can't for the life of me figure why Hitachi bought the business and kept the model name, that's like starting a whole new submarine sandwich chain and getting Jared Fogle as your spokesman when he gets out of prison.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.