Why so many HD failures lately?

[BD231]

There has been a very large amount of posts in various fourms including Anandtech dealing with the failure of recently bought HD's. Dose anyone know why so many people are having there WD and IBM drives fail on them?. It seems like RMAs are common place now, what gives?.

 

[jcmkk]

I've never seen anything like this before. I've never had a HD go bad on me or anyone I know before. I say blame it on WinXP. J/K

 

[sohcrates]

well, IBM screwed up big time with their 75gxp's, a LOT of them failed...that's really the only major problem i've seen with HDD's recently

they redesigned quickly and came out with the 60gxps..which work better.

i don't think HDD failure rates as a whole are up really....

 

[Pederv]

Alot of FSB overclocking?
Pushing the HD internal electronics to a higher freq, raising temps and killing the HD?

 

[Rahminator]

I have my PCI bus 35.75. It doesn't seem too high so is this safe for my hard-drive (Seagate Barracuda 4)?

 

[LukFilm]

Nah, tt's simpler than that. More people are bitching than ever before

 

[Paulson]

I haven't seen many posts about WD drives crapping out...

But IBM's had horrible luck with the 75GXP models...

Western Digital so far has been pretty good (had one die on me) and maxtors have also kicked ass...

 

[Pabster]

Probably the USPS irradiating everything, LOL

 

[sharkeeper]

Blame it on the hammer not the user!

Cheers!

 

[Seeko]

The non overclockers have a legitimate beef. But the overclockers (with FSB above specs) that run on here and bad mouth the hd makers should already know that overclocking the PCI bus does aid in ruining hds. If you choose to overclock, accept the consequences.