On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 16:22:07 -0700, Jerry wrote:

Since Hitachi took over IBM's Hard Drives, are they better or much the
same.

Still great disks. (not counting a certain production batch of 75GXP
IBM disks of course :-))

At the moment the 7K250 is easily the fastest 7200 rpm disk that you
can buy. It also very quiet. (Quite a large difference to my DiamonMax
Plus9 disks)