Anyone get an IBM 75gxp Buy.com?

[Syborg1211]

First of all-
http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?loc=101&sku=10245434&PageFormat=3

Is that one retail or oem? Can this one handle ata100 like the 75gxps are supposed to? Because under the features Buy says it does ata66.

and is this the same drive?
http://www.us.buy.com/retail/product.asp?loc=101&sku=10252895&PageFormat=3

Are they both retail? The second is definitely retail, but the other one does not say. Buy might have made a mistake but they said they both have a 3 year warranty

 

[erub]

I have the OEM version of the drive from buy.com - the 30 GB. I'm pretty sure it has the same warrantee, but there's another thread about the warantee. Also this drive is ATA-66+, it can burst up to 100 mb/sec when reading from the cache, but the drive isn't capable of reading continuously at that speed; it doesn't even saturate the ata-66 controller.Tom's Hardware Review of 75GXP

Its' an excellent drive, quiet and doesn't run too hot (IMO).

 

[Ulysses]

Do your homework at IBM and report back.

The two HDD's above are the same drive, but have different IBM part numbers. The first is an OEM version and the second is a boxed retail version. They both have a 3-year warranty, since buy.com is an IBM-authorized reseller.

If you order a retail version of a HDD you get the drive, standard packaging, an instruction manual, and, usually, an 80-wire 40-pin IDE cable and a drive configuration and management utility on a floppy disk. If you order an OEM version usually you get just the drive. You may download from the manufacturer?s website the setup utility and instruction manual, however. See IBM.

 

[rmblam]

The one marked "retail" is the retail one. The other (cheaper) one is an OEM that comes in a plain box as the drive only. The retail one includes manual, cable etc... The drives are identical and offer the same warranty.

 

[Shu8]

i purchased the hard drive from the first link. it was the oem version. all i saw was this hard drive in a cardboard box. i had no cables, no warranty, and no instructions. so i called up buy.com and got my refund. i bought the retail version [second link] for about 130 with the 30 dollar off 150 [new customer]. [if you're not a new customer then just use a different credit card and e-mail...i did that like 5 times]. the retail comes with hd, cables, warranty, and instructions. don't buy the oem version even if you have the accessories, ibm will not cover for oem hard drives [maximum pc did an article on it]. on buy.com's site, they sometimes show the same description for retail and oem products so becareful.

 

[Spawndude]

I bought one of the 30 gig IBM Deskstars from buy.com

On my invoice and on the box(shrink wrapped) it had the RETAIL part #

On the actual drive it had the OEM part # !!!!!!

I got all the extra stuff in the box, cable, screws, manual etc.

 

[Ulysses]

I had an experience similar to Spawndude's when I bought one of each of the two 30 GB 75 GXP's they sell at buy.com. But IBM said that while they were both considered OEM HDD's, they both had 3 year warranties.

 

[XeonTux]

I don't think this drive is any slower than other ATA/100 drives out there, none will run at 100MB/s sustained. I tried setting up a poll a few days ago to compare with other people here but noone responded I get about 36 MB/s out of my 45 GB.

This also has to be the quietest hard drive I have ever heard. If you have a fast processor and use windows, make sure you get the updated driver to keep it that way.