What IBM has to say about the "hours of usage" issue

[xander5000]

I received a response from IBM today as follows:


Thank for your interest in our Deskstar 120GXP disk drive range.

The 333 monthly (11 hours per day) 'Recommended power-on hours' stated in the Deskstar 120GXP data sheet should not be taken as an indication that the drive has this as an upper limit. It is just a reflection of typical useage in a desktop environment where we anticipate the majority of these drives will be used. The spec is the same as other drive manufacturers' drive, however we have chosen to publish it.

Regards

 

[SgtZulu]

Ok thanks
<---- goes off to purchase a Maxtor

 

[LukFilm]

Ok thanks
<---- goes off to purchase a Western Digital 120GB Special Edition

 

[RGN]

Ok Thanks

<----Is content with his WD drives.

 

[Mitzi]

Ok thanks

<------ Doesn't see whats wrong with what IBM said

 

[Finality]

<<<<------- sees plenty wrong with what IBM said.

Bleh I thought IBM translated into reliability. I'm worried about my 75GXPs both seem to be fine but now ocassionally it takes about 20 seconds for explorer to come up while one of the HDDs spin up.

 

[XPTEX]

ok thanks

<-------is tracking the delivery of his WD 120JB SE at this moment

 

[ObiDon]

OK thanks

<------Heads off to the FS/FT forums to buy dirt cheap GXP drives from the panic-stricken

 

[John]

Let me be the first to break the real news.

*** Confirmed *** Repost

 

[Electric Amish]

Let me be the first to say that Western Digital is owned by IBM and uses IBM tech in their drives.

amish

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Let me be the first to say my 75GXP has been running for 2 months with no reboots with no problems.


<------- Happy with his 75GXP and doesn't listen to nay sayers.

 

[CQuinn]

<< Let me be the first to say that Western Digital is owned by IBM... >>



Since when?



<< and uses IBM tech in their drives. >>



Not since the early days of the Caviar series AFAIK.

Edit:
<<<------ Almost forgot to mention, happy with my Maxtor 740DX and WD 1200JB

 

[sharkeeper]

First the major broadband providers (ATT, Concast) cap their service to 1.5mbps/128 kbps, (in reality lots of users aren't getting 50% of the downstream!) give some lousy rectal news service. (even the header downloads count in the pultry 1GB monthly use!) Now the HDD mfrs (and mfrs in this example doesn't stand for manufacturer! hehe take THAT to the bank, IBM!) are telling us how we have to use our hard disks?

Glad I'm using Seagates!

Cheers!

p.s. IBM built some drives for WD back in 1998~early 2000. The name "expert" comes to mind.

 

[HappyPuppy]

I wonder if the 120GXP drives have some sort of built in log that keeps track of usage? If so, they could deny warranty on the basis that you ran your computer for 8 1/2 hours one day four months ago. You were warned not to do that!

 

[sharkeeper]

I'm sure they can log the run time. Of course there's nothing a 1.3 kW radarrange can't fix!

Cheers!

 

[Sunner]

Amish, care to provide a link?

 

[xander5000]

"log the run time"???? you guys are goofey.
anyway, ibm has already said this has nothing to do with the warranty.

 

[flood]

<------ has a 75gxp that is now 'squeaking' after 18months of 24/7 use (meaning seeking/reading/writing - no idle)

 

[boyRacer]

<------ happy with Quantums and confident enough to be running without backups but this thread will make me back it up today.

 

[GrumpyMan]

<---------wondering why everyone is doing this...........

 

[flood]

<< <---------wondering why everyone is doing this........... >>




<------- looks around for eakers

 

[JellyBaby]

<< is tracking the delivery of his WD 120JB SE at this moment >>

Small world.

 

[Pariah]

IBM does not own WD. A few years back IBM and WD had a cross licensing agreement. That only applied to the WD Expert line. WD has not used IBM tech since going back to the Caviar name, nor does IBM play any part in manufacturing the drives.

 

[Electric Amish]

<< IBM does not own WD. A few years back IBM and WD had a cross licensing agreement. That only applied to the WD Expert line. WD has not used IBM tech since going back to the Caviar name, nor does IBM play any part in manufacturing the drives. >>



Must have been the licensing agreement that I remember. I thought it was an outright merger.... nevermind.

amish

 

[Dreadogg]

Ok thanks
<------looks for that damn ghost CD