I cant believe it, IBM???

[TheRealJoker]

In all my computer career, I have worked with ALOT of hardware. I worked in a computer store, and now a software company.
I can NOT believe my IBM Deskstar died on me last night....
75GXP just goes bad.... for no reason
after months of working, ka-put

i never had to RMA an ibm drive before, will be fun. lol

 

[DynaOne]

You are one of many - that drive is hexed.
DynaOne

 

[Shmorq]

In case you didn't know, the IBM 75GXP drives have had huge failure rates. I think especially the 45GB versions made in Holland.

 

[LXi]

Hungary, not Holland.

 

[jamison]

I am pretty sure it was ONLY the 45GB version that had problems. But then I could very well be wrong.

 

[Adul]

it focused mainly on the 45GB version.

 

[crt1530]

I went through THREE 75GXP's. I will not be buying another IBM drive any time soon.

 

[crt1530]

No, it was not just the 45GB version. My drives were 75GB.

 

[murdock2525]

Yea mee to..45 gig.......Haven't seen it yet ! 11 daze.
IBM..................Is suck ??????????????????

Funny thing tho....... The drive fitness test declares bad sectors but the "smart" never said a word !!!!!!!
If you need the data ? chkdsk/P from prompt
You may be able to copy over to a new HD

 

[TheRealJoker]

wow
and mine was the 45gig

i love these hard drives cause of their speed, can you blame me?
my S.M.A.R.T. didnt say a damn thing either....
just stopped my pc from entering windows with a loud crunching buzzing sound....
repeating...

 

[ugh]

Has the S.M.A.R.T. thing ever worked? Had an old Quantum Fireball which died as well and it didn't even say a thing.. Grr...

 

[Octoberblue]

I thought this might be the case but never heard anyone talk about it before! My 30Gig had some bad sectors when I first got it, RMA'd and got the second drive before returning the first, so I tested it and bam! the SECOND one was more messed up than the first! Finally I just blocked off the handful of bad sectors and kept the first one. It still works fine, but I'm thinking Maxtor asap.

So what's the scoop on the newest Maxtors? Anyone got one? They faster than the 75GXPs? More reliable? Anyone?

 

[johneetrash]

2 of my 30g 75gxps havent died *knock on wood*

does these harddrives support that SMART thing?

 

[ugh]

<< So what's the scoop on the newest Maxtors? Anyone got one? They faster than the 75GXPs? More reliable? Anyone? >>



Not sure about the latest ones, but the one that I have (15GB, can't remember the model) has got some problems with SP1-2 of Win2k and installing LILO coz it supposedly reports the CHS details incorrectly. It also doesn't boot when I plug it to my Promise ATA66 connector on board although it managed to detect it properly. The drive itself hasn't given me any probs. But it's kinda irritating that I can't use ATA66 on it...

 

[splice]

I'm probably going to get flamed for this but I use Western Digital and I have never had one go bad on me. I have been using their drives for about 10years. I still have a system running on a pentium90 running a 540MB Western Digital drive. I have bought Maxtor too, which seem to be just as reliable. But those IBM's are just trouble. I had a 15GB DTLA ATA100 go bad on my in just 3 months. No more IBM for me.

 

[ugh]

<< I'm probably going to get flamed for this but I use Western Digital and I have never had one go bad on me. I have been using their drives for about 10years. I still have a system running on a pentium90 running a 540MB Western Digital drive. I have bought Maxtor too, which seem to be just as reliable. But those IBM's are just trouble. I had a 15GB DTLA ATA100 go bad on my in just 3 months. No more IBM for me. >>



Come to think of it, I also have a WD 1.x gig that I'm using in my Pentium 133 which has been around for quite sometime. Has some bad sectors but other than that nothing wrong with the hard disk...

 

[wolf550e]

yeah, if you would have read a little bit more you would have nowen those fail a lot. thats why i got a WD. and Hungary is on the opposite side of europe from the Netherlands...

 

[Linux23]

i'm the type of person that sticks with whatever that works. i have had good experiences with Maxtor and Quantum over the years. Maxtor, IMHO was horrible, and just from my experiences with them, I will never in my life purposely buy a HDD from them again.

So even if IBM was the fastest drive on the planet, I would take reliability over speed any day.

 

[Boogak]

My 30gig 75GXP started developing bad sectors a few days ago. I've blocked them off, but if it craps out again, gonna RMA it.

 

[p0tempkin]

I've used Maxtor DM+ drives, from their older 27GB model to a 20GB DM+40, and now I've got a pair of DM+60 drives. All have worked flawlessly through heavy use (and I do mean heavy, including a countless number of formats, partitioning, and OS installs).

 

[Kill_Phil]

last 2 drives ive owned are both WD drives, havent had a problem with either. 4.1 gig and 10 gig drives. whats this i hear about flaming wd, must be something i missed?

 

[Quickfingerz]

I've owned 3 30 gig drives and 2 45's none died.

 

[TheRealJoker]

I have 2 30gig 75gxp also
they havent died yet
lets hope its just the 45gig that died....
luckily i replaced the dead 45gig with a Diamondmax Plus 40gig
nice drive, comparable too.

 

[bonkers325]

that is why they came out with 60gxp's
to replace the 75gxp's

 

[bret]

did u expect more from IBM?