My 60GXP started grinding last night :(

[Goldfish]

Well, it happened, my 60GXP drive started doing the grind deal that signifies that it is near the end of its life cycle. I'm just hoping it dies soon so I can go ahead and RMA it and get a new one to sell so I can afford a Western Digital. First and last IBM drive I'll buy. I knew there were problems with th 75GXP line, and apparently they carried over to the 60GXP line. I'm PO'd.

 

[Paulson]

Western Digital has it's fair share of failures too...

I've had one western digital drive outta the 4 I've gotten (it was a 40 gigger) that died.

3.2 gig 5200RPM drive
40 gig 7200RPM drive (died)
40 gig 7200RPM drive (replacement)
60 gig 7200RPM drive

When they do work, they work damn nice. I have no complaints about them at all.

 

[DanJ]

Look on the bright side; at least it didn't start bumping AND grinding.

 

[Mungla]

Perhaps everyone should stay away from 40GB hard drives?

I bought a 30GB & 75GB 75GXP over a year ago and they've never given me a problem. Both drives have absolutely no bad sectors, which is a sign to watch for on these IBM drives.

 

[PhiI2e]

A mere 6 hours after I hooked up my 60gb 60GXP, I wake up to a clicking and Kernel Errors. I thought this is such crap...but its soo weird. My motherboard couldnt detect the drive at all after that. I unplugged it, planning to call Newegg to have them ship me a new one, since I had a doa. I hooked up a 4 gig Fugitsu to load a temporary OS, and it wouldnt detect right at all....2 gig, 6 gig ect. I hooked it up (the 60gb) like 3 days later to see if I could retrieve any of my 8 gigs of mp3's, to find that it now works flawlessly. Been up for about a week and a half, flashed the bios, and havent had one problem. What should I do? RMA the mobo, drive, or both?

 

[yakko]

I have had 3 Western Digital drives fail on me.

850 meg RMAed
6.4 gb RMAed
20 gb RMAed

The first two I think were due to the fact that my old apartment had a crappy flow of power coming to it. The 20 gb died in a month after getting it. My Samsung and my IBM are working fine.

 

[Scuttle]

My HDD grinded a while back. It's still running fine (If a tad slow). Grinding doesn't mean the end, it's like.....hmmm...ooh doughnuts.