Deskstar was the name of a product line of computer hard disk drives. It was originally announced by IBM in October 1994.[1] The line was continued by Hitachi, when in 2003 it bought IBM's hard disk drive division and renamed it Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. In 2012, Hitachi sold the division to Western Digital, who continued the drive product line brand as HGST Deskstar. In 2018, Western Digital began winding down the HGST brand, and as of 2020 it is defunct.
The first Deskstar product produced by IBM was the DALA-3540, with a capacity of 541 decimal megabytes or 516 binary megabytes; the last was the 180GXP.[1] HGST continued the product line after the acquisition, selling the Deskstar 120GXP and Deskstar 180GXP under the HGST brand for a short time and selling new models thereafter.
The unreliable IBM Deskstar 75GXP product became notorious as the "Deathstar" (only one of at least twenty IBM products in the Deskstar family).[2]
- ^ a b Bob Francis (October 17, 1994). "IBM's disk drive family has three new members". InfoWorld: 40.
- ^ "Fix for IBM 75GXP, 60GXP and 120GXP". StorageReview Forums.