[Thinkpad] Hitachi drive difference?

[Paul Khoury]

On 4/9/07, Jonathan Berry <jberry at islandnet.com> wrote:
> Just to add to the confusion of drives that work well for their
> owners, I have two Samsung 80 GB (different model numbers, I
> think), 5400 rpm, 8MB cache, one in a 600X and one in an X32.
> Both quiet, vibration-free and of course the sample size is
> statistically irrelevant for breakdowns.  One is about 1 year
> old, the other about 2 years old.
>
Is Samsung relatively new to the foray of notebook drives?  I know the long
time manufacturers are Toshiba, IBM, Hitachi, and Fujitsu, but up until
3 years ago, have NEVER seen a Samsung, and even rarer still were
Seagate, Maxtor, and WD.