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IBM's IDE hard drives may have been plagued by a serious engineering problem, but their SCSI drives are still top notch (IMO). The 146Z10 offers amazing storage for a 10K disk. The 15K disk sound cool, but I am waiting to see their running shelf life, no use spending big bucks on a disk that has a higher tendency to fail (but maybe not). The Seagate disk are nice as well, another top notch company. And I heard somewhere, I believe on IBM's own website that they were letting Fujitsu build their disk in exchange for technology and research information royalities for IBM stuff. I am checking the validitity of that statement now. And it does look strange that Fujitsu released their *own* model HDs that are the same as the IBM 146Z10 and the 36Z15 just with different model numbers, look at the specs of the first four drives in the list, it will make you wonder.