I HATE MY IBM 60GXP HARD DRIVE

[UCBPride]

In the first two weeks it was dead silent but it got worse and worse and now its screeching and i cANT STAND IT ANYMORE!!

 

[Renob]

That drive is on its way OUT better do a backup ASAP

 

[jeffrey]

Don't tell me we have to go through this all over again with the 60GXP's.

 

[Paulson]

Well, IBM will now be frowned upon when buying drives. Reliability is far superceding speed IMHO...

I mean, ya I can have a super fast hard drive, but is it going to die on me, where all my important info is stored?

Na, maxtor/western digital are my 2 favorite brands...

 

[splice]

I'd have to agree I've never had a problem with Western Digital or Maxtor. The only IBM I bought died after a couple months, no more IBM for me.

 

[Grendel99]

All the new Maxtors and Western Digitals share parts with the IBMs....

 

[filmore crashcart]

Sorry to hear about that.... I've had mine for about 2 months and I really like it. I bought it cause I got paranoid about my WD 30 gig breaking down after reading all the horror stories about their unreliability. Funny thing is, the WD is still running fine also and it's over a year old; it's just a hell of alot louder than the 60gxp.

 

[UCBPride]

actually Id rather take a risk with the 60 or 75gxp than put up with the awful speed of maxtors

 

[UCBPride]

<< Sorry to hear about that.... I've had mine for about 2 months and I really like it. I bought it cause I got paranoid about my WD 30 gig breaking down after reading all the horror stories about their unreliability. Funny thing is, the WD is still running fine also and it's over a year old; it's just a hell of alot louder than the 60gxp. >>



does your drive make that notoriously loud spinning noise

 

[Sloth]

I thought that WD made the IMB drives, or was it that IBM made the WD. Either way they are basically the same drive.


S.

 

[filmore crashcart]

UCBPride-
Honestly, it is the quietest HD I've ever own. I've had Maxtors, WD's, and Seagate. The Seagate Baracuda I had was the only drive I owned that crapped out on me.
But now that you've mentioned this noise..... I'm probably going to start hearing it.
I swear, so far this drive has been whisper quiet. If it wasn't for the case fans, I wouldn't be able to hear my computer at all. I hope I don't suffer the same fate cause I really like this drive.

 

[Paulson]

Hell, I can't even hear my old quantum 6.4 gig hard drive because all my fans in my 2 computers are so damn loud.

WD has served me very well...

So has maxtor...

 

[GrumpyMan]

I use Western and Maxtor. Never had a problem with either. Sorry to hear about those IBMs though. I was thinking of trying one for the first time. I think I'll just go SCSI with my next rig.

 

[GT1999]

Welcome to the &quot;I hate IBM&quot; club. I've RMA'd *3* 75GXP's back to IBM. ALL of them came back either D.O.A. or only semi-functional (terrible glass screaching noises and such coming from the drives). I finally got a 60gxp (bought it) and the drive made terrible noises as well, the noisest piece of junk I've ever owned. It's noiseer than my Black Label Delta 60mm fan, and that fan is noisy as hell. The drive made this constant hum that made me want to pull my hair out. Now I RMA'd that and got a replacement from newegg, and this drive works. Hopefully it won't die on me..

My next drive will be a Maxtor, for sure. The old 10GB maxtor I have is still going good. It runs on my Linux server, has half a dozen cron jobs set up, runs as as counter-strike and webserver, almost 3 years now. IBM is terrible..

 

[billyjak]

3 IBM's 2-30 GXP Gig 1-15 gig running like a champ
Sorry to hear
I like mine though

 

[TunaBoo]

Store your backups on a maxtor, and use a 60GXP for speed. Works for me *shrug*

 

[Spagina]

I remember reading all the horror stories about Western Digital, but honestly, of probably the 10 drives of theirs I've used, 1 has died. Every other drive has worked perfectly, in fact, I have one in my machine now that is a little over 2 years old, and another one going on 8 months, both chugging along nicely. I also have a mess around frankenstein machine I built for testing Linux and whatnot that has an old 5 gig WD that still works fine. The rest of the WD's I've owned I either sold, gave to friends, or put in storage, neither failing on me.

On the other hand, I helped to build a server for an insurance company down here and we bought 4 IBM 60GXP drives to put on a RAID config. 1 failed on inital boot, two days later, two more died. We had to do a lot of replacing, but the current batch of IBM 60GXP's we have in the machine have been working fine so far.

 

[Killer]

I have an IBM 60gxp and after 10 days it is no silent anymore. That's boring because it whistles strongly, and the whistle isn't stable. How many days can be this drive still alive ?

 

[MrWhiteUK]

OH NO! One of the 60,000 members of Anandtech has a faulty GXP60!! Right that's it I'm RMA'ing mine straight away!!

Can see it now:

IBM in drive failure shocker again!!

Here we go


******Bzzzzzzzttt!!!*******

Comp shuts down as HD is yanked from machine

 

[AvidOC]

I have both IBM and Maxtor drives, both 20GB which have never given me problems, even on a 37mhz PCI bus. The Maxtor is faster in the Sandra benchmarks and both are silent ive had them for 9 months

 

[Snoop]

I'm not trying to discount peoples stories, but I cannot understand all these HD problems some of you have. Maybe im just lucky, but ive owned and setup a BUNCH (>100) systems for myself and others, and have only had 1 bad drive out of the probably 125 i have installed. Both WD and IBM have been flawless. The only bad one was a Maxtor but it was no problem, i just went to the store and exchanged it.

 

[Boonesmi]

i agree with snoop

in the last couple years ive only used ibm drives, at least 50 of them, and not one has failed

 

[TunaBoo]

<< I'm not trying to discount peoples stories, but I cannot understand all these HD problems some of you have. Maybe im just lucky, but ive owned and setup a BUNCH (>100) systems for myself and others, and have only had 1 bad drive out of the probably 125 i have installed. Both WD and IBM have been flawless. The only bad one was a Maxtor but it was no problem, i just went to the store and exchanged it. >>



My idea on this is-

A lot of people dont bother with case fans, so have hot cases. IBM HD's run hot. I have a 80 mil blowing across mine in my main comp, and a 5 1/2 inch bay fan on the other.

 

[GT1999]

Who do you guys know at the factory hehe

 

[Calum]

I have two 30gig GXP75s running in RAID0 mode, even then I can only just hear them. My Mum's 'puter has a 13gig IBM about 2 years old, also near silent. By contrast, the 10gig Maxtor that the 13gig IBM replaced is as noisy as hell and cannot be booted from reliably. I use it for an MP3 drive...

But unless you get industry wide figures for numbers of RMAs etc, you can't get any realistic sort of idea on what makes of drives (or anything else, for that matter) are reliable and which are not. Just saying &quot;My IBM/Seagate/Maxtor/WD/whatever broke, therefore all drives made by that company are crap.&quot; is just plain silly.

Calum