Okay...I just lost my Deskstar 60GXP to some weird hard disk failure. Running Win2K with the 40GB version, I got a "unaccessible_boot_device" error. Erasing the drive fixed, (losing all data.
), but I'm still pretty worried about the drive. This isn't the first time this has happened. I shut down one time, then the next time Win2k loads I get this crappy error.
Reading up on the error around the web hasn't made me too happy, either. Apparently people are having trouble with this drive as well - so I figured I'd check around Anandtech and see what you guys thought. As far as I can tell, IBM drives are high quality - but I've also heard they have a high RMA rate. There is nothing physically wrong with the drive as far as I can tell. It works great when the errors aren't occurring. I am in the market for a second drive so I'm wondering what path I should follow. Thanks in advance for any input.
Reading up on the error around the web hasn't made me too happy, either. Apparently people are having trouble with this drive as well - so I figured I'd check around Anandtech and see what you guys thought. As far as I can tell, IBM drives are high quality - but I've also heard they have a high RMA rate. There is nothing physically wrong with the drive as far as I can tell. It works great when the errors aren't occurring. I am in the market for a second drive so I'm wondering what path I should follow. Thanks in advance for any input.