how reliable are IBM DESKSTAR 34GXPs?

[TuffGuy]

i've had two 27.3gb ones die on me the past year and it looks like the THIRD one is slowly fading away. are they known to be problematic, or sensitive to overclocking?

 

[TuffGuy]

^bump

anyone?

 

[Desmoquattro]

well it looks like they as unreliable as SOME 75GXPs.

 

[amb#cog]

I bought a brand new one, then a used one shortly after that (visions of RAID in me head), but before I ever had a chance to do that. The new one died on me. I ended up trading em both (one broken, one not) for a Maxtor 7200 RPM 40gig which is still doing just fine as a storage drive for my SCSI setup. Although I had a 3 month old Maxtor (same series Plus 40) die on me too, that was a retail one from Best Buy.

Seems like it's basically the luck of the draw w/ HD's to me.

 

[ST4RCUTTER]

That thing is death on one spindle.:disgust:

 

[TuffGuy]

damn...

good thing i have two years of warranty left from micron. otherwise i'd be seriously pissed.