October 15, 2003

IBM E-Mail Shows Workers
Knew of Disk Drive Failures

International Business Machines Corp. employees knew the company's computer disk drives had a higher failure rate than the world's largest computer maker has acknowledged to customers, according to court papers. In testimony in a California state court, lawyers representing customers suing the company presented e-mail messages showing IBM employees discussing failure rates far higher than the company claims for the drives. Posted by Editor at October 15, 2003 10:24 AM