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Companies that know their product is flawed yet continue to sell it/IBM Rant!!

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Seriously, IBM is pissing me off with this whole ordeal. 4 years ago Maxtor & WD were the "iffy" drives to get and IBM was the leader. Now the tables have turned. I just bought a new Maxtor although I liked IBM in the past (have an 8.4 deskstar that's been running smooth for 4 years). Not to mention that IBM's are still top $$$ and rarely come down in price.

I back everything up to CDR since it's the cheapest way (would love to mirror everything). I still have almost 10GB that isn't backed up, but I'm not affraid it's going to be lost as I would if I had an IBM.
 
I have been using 75GXPs for sometime.
Never had a full force failure yet.
Power went out in the house, and when it came back on the drive would not spin up, but after cooling down it did.

My next drive will not be a ibm.
 
This is a mesage from LaVos, who is too damn lazy to find his password:

"Ive had my 60gxp for a while now... no probs here... woorks like a charm ;-)"
 


<< I actually have that same 40GB that crapped on you running in Server2 here. Guess what? It's an RMA for a dead one I bought for $10. So, yep, they have problems. >>

I actually had planned on replacing this drive with a Barracuda to quiet the system down, especially after reading about the problerms 60 GXP's were experiencing. I do like IBM's SCSI Drives as I have a couple in my Main Workstation. Unfortunately they are rather loud.. make that the fans I have in my Case that keep them cool are rather loud. I was thinking of switching back over to IDE but this remined me of why I use a SCSI Drives.

Now I have to figure out what my Ghost Back up was corrupted. Maybe Gagmepompously can give me an answer since he's so righteous.
 


<< This is a mesage from LaVos, who is too damn lazy to find his password:

"Ive had my 60gxp for a while now... no probs here... woorks like a charm ;-)" >>




MY 6OGXP'S have been fine too, in fact I loved how fast and quiet these drives are so much that I wouldn't use anything else for my own computers.I don't even hear much noise from these drives during defrag. However, it's time to try another brand
it seems.
 


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<< This is a mesage from LaVos, who is too damn lazy to find his password:

"Ive had my 60gxp for a while now... no probs here... woorks like a charm ;-)" >>




MY 6OGXP'S have been fine too, in fact I loved how fast and quiet these drives are so much that I wouldn't use anything else for my own computers.I don't even hear much noise from these drives during defrag. However, it's time to try another brand
it seems. >>

Maybe it holds true for hdd's what it does for auto transmissions. A hard, solid shift is better than a soft mushy one...
 
To all the people who's IBM 75 and 60GXPs are working fine, I would suggest, if you're not already, you backup everything important you store on those drives. I'm willing to bet at least 75% of you who have working 60 and 75GXPs right now will join the RMA party within 3-6 months.
 
Oh man this sounds bad. So is there any special way to back up my crap or should I just put my mp3s on a few cds (I have about 6 gigs) and hope for the best?
 
<---is officially scared my 2x 75GXP 45 gigs have been runnign well for a while... i bought the first one when they first came out for like 220$ if it crashes i will be pissed!
 
The company I work for sells over 3k drives a month, a mixture of Maxtor, WD, and IBM. By far, the lowest failure rate is Maxtor, and when they do, Maxtor has superior service. We recently dropped Seagate and Samsung for service-related issues, and IBM will be leaving soon...


My work PC that has VERY important company data... (website) on it is an IBM.. Me thinks I'll be changing that Monday. (Yes, I backup twice per week)


 
Well that sucks. Personally I have had no drives fail on me on all the systems I have built. Just been extremely lucky I guess. The worst I had was a WD that had a single bad sector, and worked fine for years after that with no additional bad sectors. Though I have run into plenty of OEM systems with deteriorating drives.
 
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