Bill But 1999 is more than half a decade ago.
I think you are talking about the 1 inch pixie dust drives. They are made by Hitachi now. You'll find them in your IPOD, but not in EMC. The last contract I recall between EMC and IBM for HDD was the 36GB drive, and that was cancelled due to heat problems. (I am repeating a rumour - happy to be corrected) Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 8:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Flash memory arrays > > > > In a message dated 1/18/2008 9:05:19 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >IBM, EMC and HDS send faulty drives back to Seagate and > Hitachi for analysis for their modular products as well. There is no > difference between drives used in Enterprise and Modular arrays. IT's > not a > hidden service, it's simply the warranty that the Disk manufacturer > provides > (it's been half a decade since IBM made a disk drive). > > Around mid-1999 EMC signed a multi-$billion contract to buy a HUGE > number of > little disks from IBM over a period of several years. So IBM was > making > disks then. And I think that contract expired about half a decade > ago. > > Bill Fairchild > Franklin, TN > > > > > > **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. > http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
