It was supported by IBM, by Compaq's development partners Seagate, Quantum, and Conner, and by Western Digital, which did not have a failure prediction system at the time.
Компании IBM, Seagate, Quantum, Conner и Western Digital (последняя на тот момент ещё не имела системы отслеживания параметров жёсткого диска) поддержали эту идею.