Poll: Have you had problems with your IBM 75GXP?

[Noriaki]

I've heard all these weird assed problems between an IBM75GXP and WinME and possibly Win98SE...I have no idea if I should believe it or not...and I'm on the virge of buying a 75GXP so I'm just going to gather the options of the masses.

Have you had problems with your 75GXP ?
Yes, in WinME
Yes, in Win98
Nope

 

[rickn]

Nope, I have 15GB 75GXP and it has never given me any problems. Win98se

 

[Cheep]

Yup. But not the problems that others talk about... the head on mine got stuck in one place and in made an ugly noise over and over when I tried to boot. I had to RMA it and get another one, no problems since then.

 

[sd]

I have the 30GB 75GXP with 98SE on an Athlon 500@700 without a single problem(knock on wood). Its hooked to a Promise ATA100 controller.

 

[Imported]

I had a 75GXP and I'm waiting to RMA it for a new one from IBM. It was excellent while it was working, but if you do get one, be careful on putting the power connector in.

 

[WWDude]

15GB, no problems under Win98 Hebrew Enabled.

Despite everything that has been said, you should still definetlly get it. It rocks, and you can always RMA it if something went wrong.

 

[Enigma]

No problems in Win2000. Great harddrive.

 

[VladTrishkin]

No, ME/W2k RAID0

 

[ignar]

Cheep,

Is your HD a retail or OEM? I have the exactly same problem and wonder if I can RMA it.(IBM website states there is no warranty for OEM) I bought it from Buy.com and believe it is OEM.

 

[Doomguy]

ignar: Your hd has a 3 year warrenty. Your hard drive came from ingram micro(buy.com's dsitributor) and all hard drives sold from there have a 3 year warrenty.

 

[Noriaki]

WTF is this about?

My local IBM retailer has the 30 Gig 75GXP and the 75 Gig 75GXP but not the 45...

Damn them!
I want the 45..

Maybe I should just order it online..onvia.ca doesn't have it..but I'm sure I can find somewhere that will ship to canada...

 

[geno]

I have 2 15GB drives in a RAID (Win98SE) - no problems whatsoever

 

[Imported]

You'd be able to RMA it since I got mine from Buy.com and they're gonna take it. Of course, they never asked me if it was retail or OEM.

 

[Taylorm]

Yes..and No

I could not get raid 0 to be stable in win98se. I got random lockups when heavy disk access and the hdd light would stay lit up and i would have to hit the reset button.

So I formatted and now im NOT using raid and im 100% stable.

 

[Noriaki]

Well I wont' be RAID0...
Thanks for the help everyone
I think I'm going to go for it.

Now do I want 30Gig or 45Gig? hmmm....

 

[ares32585]

I believe all buy.com's hard drives are retail unless they specifically say they are OEM. (At least that's what the customer support person told me when I emailed them)
-I have ordered a 45GB 75GXP drive,
but it's on back order...:disgust::disgust:

 

[Cheep]

Yes, mine was OEM, and IBM RMA'd it, sent me a new one no problem. Grab the self-diagnostic test off of IBM's site so you can give them an error code when you call.

 

[dirtboy]

Two 30GB 75GXP's, Win98SE, seperate computers, no problems.

 

[Imported]

Too bad I can't check what the error is. My 75GXP won't even start up.

 

[Cknyc]

no problems here either. There are two clicks when the drive is shutting down but I think thats when it is parking hte heads. I ran the tests just in case and all is well.

 

[viper007]

Nope my 20gb is running sweet as!!

 

[MasterMind]

The molex connector is pretty flimsy. I didnt have it pushed in all the way in for about a month. But the clicking is the heads parking off the disk. It does it every time it loses power.

No other complaints. Very fast and very quite.

 

[Raincity]

My two 75 gxp run fine in 98 but wont run in udma in win2k only in pio mode on my 815e pro board. I am still not sure if its a IBM issue or the 815e chipset issue or a Intel driver issue since my Western Digital run fine in Win2k when conecxted to that same ide channel that I tried the Ibm drives on.

Rain

 

[Zoinks]

My 45 GB 75GXP would slowly develop errors that scandisk and norton disk doctor could detect and would report as fixed, however if I reran the program immediately there would be a whole list of new errors. The errors were little things - mostly long file name errors (although some of the files didn't have long filenames).

I reformatted. Immediately afterward I had no errors, but with time more and more errors popped up. There was no way to fix them. I was about to return the drive when I tried an Promise Ultra 66. After a bit of trouble getting it installed(had to reformat again) I've never had a problem again.

Celeron 850
Abit BH6
Win 98SE
256 MB RAM