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IBM 75GXP Dying?

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Scootin159

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My IBM 75GXP is randomly 'dissapearing' to my computer. It is also making a VERY annoying sound similar to a baseball card in a bike wheel going 1000mph. It is working RIGHT NOW, but I had to reboot about 15 times before it would even become detected. RMA it?
 
My suggestion to anyone who owns one of these gems is to back it up,pack it up, and call IBM for an RMA#. Do all this after you insure they will not be sending it back to you by accidentally dropping it of course.

Probably ninety percent of these drives are defective and I wouldn't be one of those poor folk who are just waiting for the day that their drive eats their data and gives up the ghost, not for me, no thanks.
 


<< Probably ninety percent of these drives are defective and I wouldn't be one of those poor folk who are just waiting for the day that their drive eats their data and gives up the ghost, not for me, no thanks. >>


Eeek. I've had one for about 1 1/2 years. When do they usually fail if they are going to?
 


<< When do they usually fail if they are going to? >>

I hope you like surprises. One day you'll be defragging or something and it will sound like a cat is inside your drive trying to stratch its way out. You can run ibm's drive fitness test which may fix it depending on severity but that drive will never be the same.
 
This just happened to me last night - after spending a day installing Windows and setting everything up. After I reinstalled Windows on my WD drive, I made a drive image and this time, I remembered to burn a copy of the image ASAP. 🙁
 
I use my 75GXP for storing data files. All my data files. This thread is the one that finally got me worried. I will be burning away when I get home. Does anyone have any reccommendations on how to burn 20 Gigs of data fairly easily?
 
Both of my 75GXP's, one 20GB and the other 45GB have had the "disappearing" symptom you describe. I haven't had any problems until I flashed to the latest BIOS on my KT7A. They don't make any weird noises or anything, but I'm about to ghost an image of the drive tonight and see what the fitness tests say.

There's also a class action suit against IBM for the 75GXP series. Search posts by me under 75GXP and you'll find the link. I signed up in hopes for compensation for 'risk of data loss'. Who knows, maybe it will get me a new drive or two.

Too bad I filled up the $100 120GB WD drive I got from CompUSA in one day. Bummer.
 
I am still keeping my fingers crossed with my 75GXP. I have had it since last november, but no troubles....



yet.....
 
All I say is good luck.
Mine died 2 days after I got it. Scratching and when I ran scandisk the bad sectors just kept on growing and growing. At least I didn't have a problem getting a replacement. But one thing I'll make sure of is a regular back-up. Back-ups are a good idea anyway, IBM hard drive or not.
 
To balance things out:

I have had my 45GB 75GXP for almost a year now. It's been running 24/7 since July pretty
much. No problems even though it was made in the eeeeeeeeeevil Philipines factory. 🙄
 
I know. I keep thinking: "Boy, I need to go out an buy a new hard drive...", but this one keeps on going fine. 🙂
 


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<< Probably ninety percent of these drives are defective and I wouldn't be one of those poor folk who are just waiting for the day that their drive eats their data and gives up the ghost, not for me, no thanks. >>


Eeek. I've had one for about 1 1/2 years. When do they usually fail if they are going to? >>



This is the 2nd one I've had die on me, and both have died almost exactly 6 months after I got them.
 
Well, I ran their Disk Fitness Test utility on the drive, and it found some bad sectors and apparantly fixed them. I'm going to mess around with it for a week or so, just putting some loop cd's on there for immediate access to try it out.

I ordered a couple new drives to put in my RAID setup, figuring I'd sell the RMA one. I guess I may just end up selling this one as is - with a "it's working right this moment, but I am not sure about in 30 seconds" disclaimer on it... lol
 
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