"Messick, Gary" <Gary.Messick_at_itt.com>@classiccmp.org on 08/15/2001
08:27:07 AM
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Subject: RE: Fujitsu drives (was Re: Service does still exist....)
Didn't Fujitsu just (within the last week) exit the hard disk market? Or
was it just desktop (IDE) drives?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Master of all that Sucks [mailto:vance_at_ikickass.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:48 PM
> To: Glenatacme_at_aol.com
> Cc: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Fujitsu drives (was Re: Service does still exist....)
>
>
>
> Well, it usually the large-capacity (4.5+ GB) older
> workstation drives.
> One good way to find out is to ask Fujitsu. It's the path I normally
> take.
>
> Peace... Sridhar
>
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 Glenatacme_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> > More information about this, please? If I find a Fujitsu
> drive how can I
> > tell if the lifetime warranty applies to that drive?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Glen
> > 0/0
> >
>
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Yup - The Register (A British IT mag) just had an article on it:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/7/20799.html
"Fujitsu bows out of desktop hard drive fight
By Robert Blincoe
Posted: 02/08/2001 at 14:37 GMT
Fujitsu is ditching the desktop hard disk market to concentrate on
the notebook and server sectors where it believes it can make more
money.
The company will quit making desktop hard drives later this year.
Mike Chenery, VP of Fujitsu Computer Products of America,
acknowledged things had been difficult because of low margins, the
markets' slow growth, and because Fujitsu hadn't been one of the
first players competing in the sector.
Fujitsu's competitors are IBM, Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital,
and Samsung in the desktop drive market. Interestingly, back in May,
Paul Griffin, IBM's EMEA VP for its Technology Group, predicted it
would be Samsung and Western Digital which would bow out of the
sector first.
He felt Fujitsu had deep enough pockets and technology ownership
to last out the margin fight.
Fujitsu had lost market share in the first half of 2001, and was in fifth
place with to nine per cent. ? "
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