Dead, now $87 Very good price - IBM Deskstar 120GXP 80 GB 7200RPM Hard Drive - $73.49 Shipped overnight at Dell.

[dexvx]

What SpiderCU said.

75GXP's have had a higher rate of failure, but not the 60GXP/120GXP's. Every freaking harddrive company has failures in their drives. Since IBM got the 75GXP issue, it seems like every IBM drive to fail after that has given it an exponentially worse reputation. Personally, I've owned 2 IBM drives, 60GXP and the (35? GXP), and they've not failed for approximately 3 years.

Of all my friends who had 75GXP's fail was because they had very poor cooling. Even though their cases had adequate air flow, they put their drives stacked on top of each other. Do that to 4+ harddrives, leave them on 24/7, and even the best harddrives will fail.

 

[IgoByte]

Sweet deal. Prices on HDDs have gotten really low. I remember, from recent memory, buying 30GB IBM 75GXPs for $150 a piece.

A good 80GB drive for $74 without PM or MIR - great!

 

[kenja]

"Is this deal still good?
Otherwise, old posts coming back from the dead are NOT hot in my book."

I don't think so, and I agree.

By the way, Ford is better than Chevy.

 

[bargainshopper]

How come this deal becomes active again?