IBM 60Gxp

[HarryHood85]

Why do so many people think these are bad drives? It seems like I am seeing the same pattern for people the drive fails for. It is never one drive that fails they always have like for or five ibm's fail on them. Donsn't anyone think this is a little odd, there is no way they are that unlucky. Is there some kind of hardware problem other than the hard drive that might be making their drives fail?

 

[Red Dawn]

<< Is there some kind of hardware problem other than the hard drive that might be making their drives fail? >>

Yeah it must be that thingamajig

 

[ChefJoe]

This'll get locked for not being in another IBM thread somewhere, but my theory is inadequate cooling. I have never moved my computer around while powered up and have always had cooling on my 2 75GXPs and 60GXP and haven't seen either of them fail/corrupt yet. Just my luck though... still have 2 75GXPs that won't fail so I can get 40 G 120GXPs from IBM.

 

[Dre]

Or maybe bad electrical wiring in their house. It could be the IBM's are more sensetive to this.

 

[mcveigh]

<< This'll get locked for not being in another IBM thread somewhere, but my theory is inadequate cooling. I have never moved my computer around while powered up and have always had cooling on my 2 75GXPs and 60GXP and haven't seen either of them fail/corrupt yet. Just my luck though... still have 2 75GXPs that won't fail so I can get 40 G 120GXPs from IBM. >>



I had 4 ibm 75gxp's in 2 raid1 arrays with active cooling in removable racks.

They all failed. :|

I have replaced 2 with seagates, and I have 2 quantums waiting to go in soon as I get the time.
Thank God for RAID!