My 36LZX gone bad???? is the earth still round????

[otheos]

Now, if you pay almost $1000 for a hard drive you don't expect it to give you bad sectors do you??

well, my IBM 36LZX (only 8months old) gave me 157KB of bad sectors (36GB total size).

Ok, it's going back RMA, but this drive holds my (professional) life and I was lucky I am thorough with backups and hardware testing.

I bet insurance doesn't come with the price I paid for it, but I was hoping with a 5 year guarantee IBM must be offering a high quality product.

Most probably I will be getting a product to product replacement, and eventhough I still believe IBM has the best quality (indeed I do believe that), I may flee towards Quantum if I am given the chance, looking for their Atlas II 10K.

Only think that'll make my decision is noise. The 36LZX is a noisy drive, and when it reads/writes at 4.5ms it sounds like an off balance blender. Anybody has experience with the Atlas 2?

TIA

[plucky duck]

The IBM's are nice, but I went with the Atlas 10K II myself.

With 8megs of buffer, 10K speeds, and 4.7ms access times, it rips, rocks, and rolls like I've never seen before http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif As expected, the spin up is a wee bit noisy but after that it just blends in with the rest of the system and you can hardly hear it. I know I don't. But then again, I could be going deaf http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif hehe

On paper, its beaten by Seagate's X15, but in real life write tests I can outperform it, don't ask me how can it be so, it just does http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Of course though, I'm an owner of the product, so I like to think of myself as having bought a superior product, thus I may be just a wee bit biased http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Pluckster

[otheos]

It's going back RMA, but I got to stick to a product to product replacement, so that Atlas is not coming my way after all.