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IBM Deliberately Sells Defective Hard Drives

Your Money | February 18, 2004 | Tim
Slashdot: IBM was well-aware that its click-of-death 75GXP hard drives had a failure rate of as much as 10 times that of its competitors. IBM apparently sold drives it knew were faulty into distribution, and reportedly planned to deal with any issues with marketing spin rather than a fixing the problem. (Way to go, IBM!)

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