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SUOrangeman

SUOrangeman

Diamond Member
Oct 12, 1999
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With numerours good/bad luck reports on this Desktar line, I want to take a macroscopic (dat's one o' dem collige werds) view of what's going on. Here's what I want:

CPU/Chipset: BX/AMD/VIA XYZ MHz
Deskstar model: 15GB, 20GB, 30GB, 45GB, 60GB, 75GB (is there a 40GB?)
IDE Controller for Deskstar: BX/AMD/VIA ATA-33, Promise/HighPoint/AMD/VIA/Other ATA66/ATA100 (differentiate RAID and non-RAID controllers if you can)
RAID: YES, NO (include the cases of single drive use on RAID controllers)
Term of use: If still running, for how long? If drive failed, how long before failure?

Let's see if we can keep the extraneous comments to a minimum. There may be a trend here.

-SUO
 
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Spook

Platinum Member
Nov 29, 1999
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Abit BE6-2, but not on the highpoint controller... BX chipset
75GXP 30G HD
Never been RAIDed
Running since Late May, no probs... Mostly Win98, but until recently I put on Win2k(not because of the drive)
 
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Cheep

Senior member
Oct 9, 1999
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One 15 gig GXP running on Abit BF6, with Promise Ultra 66, run fine until it failed after about 6 weeks. RMA'd it, and the new one has been fine for 2 months. Now, I have a 30gig GXP running on a KT7-RAID (HPT370 controller), not RAIDed yet, runs fine. A partition disappeared, ran the self diagnostic test and I have to RMA this one too. These drives are great performers, but that's not a very good track record.
 
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oldfart

Lifer
Dec 2, 1999
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I'll bite.

PIII 700e @ 933
ASUS CUSL2 815E on 815E controller (now)
ASUS P3B-F on Promise Ultra66 controller (previously)
30 Gig 75GXP OEM from Buy.com
No Raid

Had the drive for 3 months and so far so good. Fastest and quietest IDE drive I've ever seen.
 
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br0wn

Senior member
Jun 22, 2000
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PIII 700e@1Ghz
45GB 75GXP

Had the drive since July/August, no complain...
quiet and fast.
 
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jfall

Diamond Member
Oct 31, 2000
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Thunderbird 950
A-Bit KT-7 Raid
IBM Deskstar 30GB 75GX
Onboard ATA100 RAID Controller

Had it for about a month now, it is probably the fastest IDE drive I have ever used. It is also very quiet, I love it. I have had no problems with it as of yet.
 
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dirtboy

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
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One 30GB 75GXP on a Promise Ultra 100, no problems.

One 30GB 75GXP on a Asus A7V, no problems.
 
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Lifer
Apr 23, 2000
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900mhz T-Bird, MSI K7T Pro(KT133 Chipset)using onboard controller
18GB GXP ATA-66 7200RPM
No Raid.

:)
 
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Raincity

Diamond Member
Feb 17, 2000
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MSI 815e pro & P3 700 cbo
Promise Ultra 66 card
4 IBM 75gxp 30 gig drives, fat 32 and Ntfs, All the Ibm drives where installed and formated at the same time in August. One of the drives was bad right out of the box. Now last week my Win2k os drive was starting to show signs of drive failure so I yanked it out and will rma it back to Ibm after the holliday season is over. The other three seem to be fine so far knock on wood.
 
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kuk

Platinum Member
Jul 20, 2000
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Sorry SUO ... let me write down the whole situation the way you want:

[*]CPU/Chipset: VIA KT133 - Abit KT7 RAID - Tbird 850 MHz
[*]Deskstar model: 45GB
[*]IDE Controller for Deskstar: ATA-66, ATA-100-RAID
[*]RAID: NO (single drive use on RAID)
[*]Term of use: Mobo has been returned. Had errors during all windows' and linux's installations. One out of eight OS installations were successfull. "Cannot write to AUX" message in WinME. Random lockups with Win2k. Going to PIO mode improved stability, but still considerably unstable. Didn't matter if connected to Via ATA66 or Highpoint **370 ATA100 controlers. Used different cables and BIOS revisions.


[*]CPU/Chipset: VIA KT133 - Asus A7V (Rev 1.02) - Tbird 850 MHz
[*]Deskstar model: 45GB (the same drive as in situation 1)
[*]IDE Controller for Deskstar: ATA-66, Promise ATA-100
[*]RAID: NO
[*]Term of use: Runs fine. The HD is running in this system for 3 weeks now.
 
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ahfung

Golden Member
Oct 20, 1999
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CPU/Chipset: P3-842, BX
Deskstar model: 2 75GXP DTLA 30GB
IDE Controller for Deskstar: Promise Fastrak 100
RAID: YES, RAID0
Term of use: Running fine for over 6 months.


Edit: In use with Win2000 for some months
 
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rmblam

Golden Member
Aug 24, 2000
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see sig

promise controller no RAID

drive running perfect on w98se patched (since September) but no issue before patch either.

 
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Mojonba

Senior member
Aug 15, 2000
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Cel2 533@933
75GXP 45G
No RAID
Running Perfectly for 2 months

Cel 300@466
14GXP 10GB
No RAID
Running Perfectly for 3 years

Cel 300@466
22GXP 18GB
No RAID
Died in the first two month, RMA'ed and the replacement going strong for almost two years


 
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Noriaki

Lifer
Jun 3, 2000
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Athlon 550 Classic, Asus K7M (AMD751 north, Via 686A south)
IBM DTLA-307030 (30Gig 75GXP) on the integrated Via 686A IDE controller
Never been in an IDE RAID
It's been running since early october no problems to report.

Edit: oh yeah I'm not using that patch.
 
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cdrsft

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Apr 21, 2000
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Just got a 45GB 75GXP....... Running under 2k, I am having some weird problems.

Eg. when burning a CD, the system sometimes just stops...... not freezes, just stops. Processes continue to run, but the CD literally stops dead in its tracks.

Not sure if this is HD problem though, but I am suspicious as all hardware was running perfect before the GXP.

 
JohnCU

JohnCU

Banned
Dec 9, 2000
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Abit BF6 BX
No RAID
20.5gb, RMA'd it because it would click click click beep! and freeze up, but they sent it back and told me nothing was wrong with it. Now have 2 partitions on it for the past couple of weeks since I got it back, very very loud, very fast though.
 
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Jonny

Golden Member
Oct 26, 1999
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Thunderbird 1000
Asus A7V
IBM 45GB GXP
No Raid


-finally stable with hard drive patch and a7v bios 1005....in both ME and Win2k

 
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Schola

Golden Member
Oct 9, 1999
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Amd Athlon 600/ AMD 751 Iron Gate/Via 686a
1 IBM Deskstar 6.4gb, 2 IBM 75GXP
Via 686a ATA-66 Controler for 75GXP
No Raid
Windows 2000, 75gxp since september, desktar since 1997?

Schola
 
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Term2

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Dec 6, 2000
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CPU/Chipset: VIA KT133/ AMD 800 TB
Deskstar model: 30GB
IDE Controller for Deskstar: VIA ATA-33
RAID: NO
Term of use: drive failed in 1st month. It gave some scratching sound. So I returned it and got a new one. The new one has been working so far. I notice that the 2nd drive was in 2 boxes: its original box in a bigger box with padding. The lst one came with its original box only.
 
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SaturnX

Diamond Member
Jul 16, 2000
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Chipset - BX
Deskstar Model: 30GB
IDE Controller - BX Chipset
RAID: No
Term of use: Never had any problems, been running for over half a year, with both Win2K, and 98SE

--Mark
 
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Gatsby

Golden Member
Nov 6, 1999
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Chomp chomp

I've got 2 18 gig 22gxp in Raid 0 on a hacked Promise ata 66 card.
Running on my Abit Bp6 for a few months now straight.. no problems what so ever.

Gatsby - 23
 
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jameseypoo

Junior Member
Oct 2, 2000
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Piii 700
Abit BX 133 Raid
GXP 75 30-gigger
128 MEg of CAS 2 Infineon RAM

no problems on HDTACH test - 37 MEGS A SECOND!
no problems on SISoft Sandra 2001, my HD kicks all the others ass.

there is a problem with PERFORMANCE TEST-MY HD scores very low.
Disk-sequetial Read-9.6
Disk sequential Write-18.2
Disk Random Seek and Rewrite-0.9 YES less than 1!! horrible!! I suspect I need the patch cuz this test deals with the cache I think.

 
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pulse8

Lifer
May 3, 2000
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PIII600/VIA
45 and 15GB models
Promise Ultra100
RAID=NO
Running for 6 months strong for the 15GB...the 45 has been going for about a month and no problems.

 
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