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Is the IBM 60GB gxp series the one with all the troubles?

Only the higher capacity 75GXPs were affected... mostly 45gb or bigger...

so amdskip, u should be fine 🙂
 
With other good choices out there, why trust IBM when they have a recent screw up in their history?

Western Digital (my choice) or Maxtor have comparable products and fewer debacles in their recent histories.

 
I bought bad ( no bad sectors, but really loud high-pitch noise - louder than the rest of the box 🙂 ) 60GXP-60GB today which I'll return in the morning (seems like a bad lot, since drive was in original, sealed bag - no refurb or return; Fry's "deal" at $109, damn).

My other 60GXP-60GB (from different store and lot) is fine, I'll try to get one more drive from them tomorrow ...
 
WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T GET IBM HARD DRIVES!!! PLEASE!

Here is my story. My friend was upgrading his computer, but his motherboard wasn't detecting his hard drive, so I took out my hard drive to hook it up in his computer, but one of the four pins on the back of the hard drive that connects to the power supply broke off! what the heck? So I called IBM right away and they told me it's a common issue and that it's not covered under the warrenty. They gave me a phone number of a company that fixes hard drives, so I called them and told them that my pin came off and the first thing they asked me was, "sir, do you own an IBM deskstar?" And I was like "yeah, how'd you know???" They said it's a VERY COMMON problem among IBM deskstar HD's. It was gonna cost a $75.00 plus s/h, so I just went and bought Seagate HD. I don't know about speedwise, but it's dead quite. So much better. I would go with Western Digital if you want a fast HD though.
 
I own 6 75GXPs and 3 60GXPs. They're all fine.

I also own 4 WD 100GB 8MB buffer drives. These are very nice as well.
 
75GXP is with troubles, mostly Hungarian series. 60GXP has less troubles. IBM drives are fast but not reliable.
 
I think you have already found out that it seemed (initially) to be only the 45 GB (3 platter) version of the 75GXP series that was "giving people problems"; then complaints surfaced for the 75GB (4 platter) version and eventually to other models in the line. Last I heard (Maxium PC) there is a class action lawsuit against IBM by disgruntled 75GXP series owners.

Lately I've been hearing complaints about some of the drives in the 60GXP series (like the ones in this thread); however, the "problems" seem to be less common with the 60GXP series.

Yeah, if you can "swing it", the "special edition" 8MB cache version of the 100GB Western Digital Hard Drive is getting a lot of good press.
 
As you've no doubt read, it's the 75GXP.

Additionally, it was ONLY the ones produced at a single manufacturing facility - Phillipines, if I'm not mistaken.

I've got 3 over here, two as part of a RAID and one more doing duty as backup for that RAID. They haven't missed a lick since day one.

I wouldn't hesitate to buy another IBM drive bases on experiences I've had with them to date.
 
I had a 60GXP that just wouldn't power up fast enough to be recognized during boot-up. I disabled Quick Boot and sometimes it would still be a slow riser. I replaced it with a WD600BB, no problems (yet).
 
I use IBM drives almost exclusively. I have only RMAd 2 out of all the ones I have tried. Both of them were 75GXPs.
 
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