I saw a rather interesting IBM drive last night. My friend brought his system over so we could have a mini LAN last night. He plugged his power in, and watched his power supply smoke. So we then searched around for a replacement, and nothing I had was powerful enough beyond my server. He had a first gen slot Athlon, aka the Power Sucker(tm)

So I pulled out my recently created spare machine that used to be my main gaming PC, and we decided to toss his drive in, along with my old WD 13gig. He took his out, and it was an IBM 13 gig, that really closly matched the WD. Even down to a yellow plastic piece covering a controller chip and cache on the PCB. The one difference was that one of the other chips on the PCB had moved slightly, but all the other components matched, as did the overall design of the spindle and such.

Did IBM get their drives from other companies initially?