>IBM drives tended to be the best.

The IBM Deskstar 75GXP entirely earned its nickname of Deathstar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_fa...

I never touched those because IBM was at a low point and their retail PC stuff tended to suck. Always enterprise gear like Ultrastar U2W drives.

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/overview-182gb-and-91gb-10...

IBM San Jose/Almaden is where HDD tech originally came from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_305_RAMAC

nope. i don't even think ibm were being widely sold at all. ultrastar rings a bell, somewhat, but definitely not ibm hard drives. and i'm talking early 2000s here.