Wooo! Another 60gxp on the way out!

[spazntwich1]

Just a few minutes ago, I was in a game of q3, when it hard froze. Then I got a blue stop screen relating to 'kernel paging'.

Upon rebooting, my BIOS would freeze at detecting IDE devices. After that a few times, my post screen would will with garbage characters, and it would say "Primary Master Hard Drive Failure".

This HD has served me well since June '01, but I guess it's not impervious to the same fate so many other of it's brethren have faced.

I'm lucky enough that after waiting a few minutes, I was able to boot back up. I'm backing things up as I type.

I spose the good thing out of all of this is once the darn thing fails for good, I'll get a 120GXP out of the deal I can Egay! Then, it's Western Dig for me.

 

[bozo1]

another one bites the dust...

 

[wolfsblood]

heh damn those 60gxp's, I picked one up from fry's and it started acting up a couple weeks later, so I just picked up a Maxtor 60 gig ata/133 drive for 20 bucks less

 

[Red Dawn]

Are you sure it's dying and not just rumored to be dying?

 

[cbuchach]

I hope my dual 60GXP RAID0 array doesn't suffer the same fate.....

 

[Red Dawn]

<< hope my dual 60GXP RAID0 array doesn't suffer the same fate >>

There are a lot of people using them who haven't had any problems. Just make sure that you back up your data because running them in raid 0 you only need one Deathstar to go bad to cause you to lose all your data.

 

[Dreadogg]

oh let this post vanis by the morning!

 

[GT1999]

<< Are you sure it's dying and not just rumored to be dying? >>



Hey, just because IBM admits that there's a problem doesn't mean that there's one, alright! My IBM 60GXP has had zero problems and outperforms 15k SCSI drives!

</sarcasm>

 

[PeteyPete]

I'm on my third one (thank god for Newegg's RMA system), and got another sitting in my closet....I haven't yet mustered up the courage to take it out of the box.....

We should have a pool guessing how long it lasts before it's eventual death.

 

[spazntwich1]

<< Are you sure it's dying and not just rumored to be dying? >>



My POST screen was pretty dang garbled. I'm going to try the IBM disk fitness test today, but that's secondary to backing everything up.

 

[murphy55d]

I have had no problems at all with mine.

 

[hans007]

odd my friends HP that i got for him . the 80 gig maxtor just died. Gonna try and get him a 80 gig western dig as a replacement. I personally have seen tons of maxtors fail, and a few ibms, but with the reports of ibms being so bad maybe i should stick with seagate and western dig now

 

[Dreadogg]

hans I've been noticing alot of segates going sour also!

 

[CZroe]

When you get everything backed up: Don't trust the 60GXP! Even if everything starts to seem OK. Mine started intermittantly saying "IDE BOOT FAILURE" and I freaked out. I got it booted about once out of every 3 tries so I cloned it to my friend's 60GB Western Digital drive with Ghost as soon as I could. The symptoms quit and IBM Diagnostics couldn't find anything wrong. He threw a fit a few weeks later and it still wasn't acting up so I gave it back to him and told him to delete whatever he didn't want. He didn't start using it until about a week or two later and the same day he started deleting stuff, my computer froze and the drive activity wouldn't stop. I shut down and tried to start and got the "IDE Boot Failure" thing again. Except now, it's totally dead (When it does try to boot, I see "corrupted file" messages and it doesn't get very far.). I ran IBM's Diagnostic tools again and it found bad sectors, but crashes when it encounters them, so it's unusable. My friend's comouter can't even see the drive

 

[Red Dawn]

If you want dependable drives go SCSI. They are built for Mission Critical Server enviroments and are a lot more robust than even the best IDE drives on the Market. Of course you pay a premium for them. If you want to pay less you can go with older models for your secondary drives. IBM and Seagate have been unloading many of their older models cheap and you can find 18 and 36 gig Drives (new) for around $100.00 at some of the Computer Clearing Houses.

 

[spazntwich1]

<< If you want dependable drives go SCSI. They are built for Mission Critical Server enviroments and are a lot more robust than even the best IDE drives on the Market. Of course you pay a premium for them. If you want to pay less you can go with older models for your secondary drives. IBM and Seagate have been unloading many of their older models cheap and you can find 18 and 36 gig Drives (new) for around $100.00 at some of the Computer Clearing Houses. >>



I'm absolutely going SCSI for my college computer (you know, when the parents foot the bill ). The speed and reliability advantages are there, and if you just don't go TOP end, you still don't have to pay out the nose.

 

[CraigRT]

<< I have had no problems at all with mine. >>



In all honesty, that's probably luck. Consider yourself lucky, dude..