On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 20:37 -0400, William Warren wrote: > I would be interested in the informaiton that WD outsources their > manufacturing to other drive makers please..:) It's extremely hard to come by. It's not very public knowledge -- just like the fact that DLink, Linksys and many others get most of their equipment from Bromaxx and maybe 1 other. But WD shut down their fabs over 5 years ago, largely due to costs. They largely used IBM at that time, who's fabs are now Hitachi's. But WD had bought from several sources. In fact, there is a consortium of suppliers akin to "PC Chips" in the hard drive industry. They are largely fed by Maxtor, although some come from Hitachi too. -- Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org ------------------------------------------------------------------ Community software is all about choice, choice of technology. Unfortunately, too many Linux advocates port over the so-called "choice" from the commercial software world, brand name marketing. The result is false assumptions, failure to focus on the real technical similarities and loyalty to blind vendor alignments.