Fujitsu not being US corporation didnt get so lucky. Their 2005 annual report listed HDD litigation-related expenses at 10,220 mil yen = ~$100mil
Mmmm Fujitsu, the sweet sweet smell of conifer forest. The flux they used on those drives smelled amazing!
I worked at European Fujitsu distributor in late nineties. Absolutely the best non IBM(1) hard drives you could buy at the time. Cheap, fast, dead silent, super reliable. Then this happened:
“blame was laid on the supplier of epoxy mould compound used in the manufacture of Cirrus’ Himalaya 2.0 and Numbur chips”
Symptoms were drive not being detected, reporting as garbage corrupted strings, not spinning up or even clicking. The irony is they are 100% perfect mechanically. Btw I read somewhere swapping pcbs without making sure they have same firmware rev on board might result in service area corruption requiring actual specialist knowledge to recover (or running premade script in PC3000).
(1) and we all know how IBM Deskstars turned out ;-( Amazing and fast drives, until the sad conclusion.
Mmmm Fujitsu, the sweet sweet smell of conifer forest. The flux they used on those drives smelled amazing!
I worked at European Fujitsu distributor in late nineties. Absolutely the best non IBM(1) hard drives you could buy at the time. Cheap, fast, dead silent, super reliable. Then this happened:
https://www.theregister.com/2002/11/05/fujitsu_admits_4_9_mi...
https://www.dataclinic.co.uk/fujitsu-hard-disk-recovery/
“blame was laid on the supplier of epoxy mould compound used in the manufacture of Cirrus’ Himalaya 2.0 and Numbur chips”
Symptoms were drive not being detected, reporting as garbage corrupted strings, not spinning up or even clicking. The irony is they are 100% perfect mechanically. Btw I read somewhere swapping pcbs without making sure they have same firmware rev on board might result in service area corruption requiring actual specialist knowledge to recover (or running premade script in PC3000).
(1) and we all know how IBM Deskstars turned out ;-( Amazing and fast drives, until the sad conclusion.