IBM hard drives?

[Giblet]

im looking at a IBM 120GB EIDE ATA-100 7200 RPM HARD DISK DRIVE - DRIVE ONLY (Bare Drive). now ive heard many bad things about IMB hard drives but aparently only some moddles are bad does any one know if this is a bad hard drive? i hope not. this is the only 120GB that im realy interested in but im not up to waisting 140 bucks on somthing that will die if i leave it on to long

 

[Adul]

why nota wd SE drive? fastest ide hard drive

i think the 120 gxp are ok

 

[Giblet]

the problem is money. i cant aford to buy a wack hard drive but i cant aford to go realy reliable. but im kind of set on wanting a 120 GB

 

[apriest]

I've posted on this topic many times before. If you dig around you'll find many other hard drive threads. Personally, I like the 120GXP series. I've sold about 30 60GXP and 120GXP hard drives without a single drive failure. I sell an Enermax UC-002F9S hard drive cooler with each drive though (NewEgg, $6). Many of these drives are running 24x7 in video editing computers as the audio drive with incredible performance. I think perhaps people have had trouble with IBM drives were because they were not cooled properly. I also highly recommend the 8MB Special Edition WD drives. They do have the highest performance under some applications. I set up 4 120GB 8MB cache WD drives in a RAID 5 array with an Adaptec 2400A for a video encoding workstation. I was blown away with the performance we got for the price!

 

[jeffrey]

"i cant aford to go realy reliable"

Can you afford to lose your data? Can you afford the waiting time to rma a failed drive and get a questionable replacement through the mail? Relatively everything is factored into a hard drive's price..... reliability can be bought pretty cheap now of days. I bought an ibm 45gb hd and will choose another brand next time I buy a hd. IBM also recommends that you don't leave the 120gxp on for more than 8 hours per day and they have recently sold the majority of their hard drive business. IBM hard drives raise too many red flags for me, but to each its own.

 

[Giblet]

yeah its that 8 hours thing i herd about. i couldn't find that warning though anywhere on the net besides what people have told me. and yes i can wait to have a new one sent to me. i decuded to pay 10 bucks more and go with the more reliable

 

[jbond04]

Giblet, I have yet to hear of anyone on this forum having a hard drive failure using a 120GXP hard drive. On the other hand, I have heard of several people having problems with their WD Special Edition hard drives. This is probably due to the large amount of people who own a WD SE hard drive, but still...

And as for the 333 power on hours, IBM already stated that their drives are reliable enough to run 24x7, and I have no reason not to believe them. My 30GB IBM 75GXP has been running nearly 24x7 for over a year and a half, and I have yet to have a problem. In my new system, I have two 40GB IBM 120GXP's running in RAID 0. No problems yet.

 

[Giblet]

ok so i might go for the IBM 120GXP 120GB.

 

[Derango]

Originally posted by: jbond04
And as for the 333 power on hours, IBM already stated that their drives are reliable enough to run 24x7, and I have no reason not to believe them.

Oh I do. Have you heard them admit a problem with the 75GXP? Nope. In fact, on their web site, they still say the 75GXP has increased reliability over their older drives. I'm sorry...I have trouble trusting them. Now, Since this really isn't the topic of the thread, I'm going to leave it alone now

 

[Giblet]

my extra 60 bucks fell through so im only giong for an 80. maxtor 7200 rpm for like 80 bucks

 

[Mustanggt]

Wow $32 more bucks gets you a WD800JB shipped to your door,

 

[jbond04]

Originally posted by: Derango

Oh I do. Have you heard them admit a problem with the 75GXP? Nope. In fact, on their web site, they still say the 75GXP has increased reliability over their older drives. I'm sorry...I have trouble trusting them. Now, Since this really isn't the topic of the thread, I'm going to leave it alone now

Different strokes for different folks.