WD? I don't think so.. IBM has their own drive manufacturing plants. used to be in rochester minnesota.. they moved some of the stuff to ireland for their new glass platters.. that's when they had the huge failures of the 75GXP models.. i think they shut down that plant because of total mis-managment by the people there. then sold all the tech to hitachi (who has been cross-licensing IBM stuff for a long time.. making very solid high-end server stuff)