IBM sold their hard drive manufacturing operations to Hitachi some time ago. On Thursday, August 7, 2003, at 08:27 AM, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote: > Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 23:17:04 -0700 > Subject: Re: [G4] External Firewire Hard Disk Case for IDE Drive > From: Mark Singh <macfan at telus.net> > Message-Id: <C3FDC94B-C89E-11D7-A61E-000A27E36AEE at telus.net> > > On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 03:33 PM, H F wrote: > IBM's were really in vogue a few years ago, but have really suffered > from all the reported failures of their large capacity drives. The > Barracuda's are also super quiet. I'm using an 80 GB one that I'm quite > happy with.