hard drive died on me

[fluxquantum]

after my IBM hard drive died on me i have been busy reinstalling crap. i really hate losing stuff. i didn't think it would happen but the hard drive finally bit the dust. i did an RMA and hopefully the new drive will be better. anyone experience the same frustration?

 

[minendo]

Yet another reason I do not buy IBM hard drives. Sucks to have that loss though.

 

[her209]

How old was it?

 

[ROTC1983]

Who now owns the IBM hard drives? Isn't it Hitachi or something like that?

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: ROTC1983
Who now owns the IBM hard drives? Isn't it Hitachi or something like that?

Yes.

 

[fluxquantum]

Originally posted by: her209
How old was it?

it was a little over a year. happens to be a 40 gig. will IBM give me something better for the replacement?

 

[CraigRT]

That's brutal. I am sticking to WD lately.
hdd's are almost always luck of the draw... one person has a problem with a specific company to no end and the other guy praises them... hard drives are unfortunately the hardest thing to be thoroughly satisfied with (especially when building many systems) I find Maxtor to be the biggest pain in the ass lately. lots of fails.

 

[Paulson]

I got 5 WD's and 2 quantums here at my house...

2 in my server, 3 in my main rig... 2 in my email server

 

[Supermercado]

I had a WD that was about two months old die on me a few weeks ago.

 

[yellowperil]

Anyone know why IBMs have such bad reliability? I've had a Deskstar and two Travelstars fail

 

[0roo0roo]

in general they don't. they had a bad batch a while back which started people talking.

i have a 10gb that still going strong. i've had drives from other brands go bad, its expected. your drive will fail sooner or later.