IBM HARDRIVE FAILURE 60GXP &75GXP

[jkittlesen]

Anyone on the forum using these drives having any problems?

http://www.theinquirer.net/07080116.htm

[voogru]

YES THEY TOTALLY SUCK!! my 30GB is FINE! but i got a 60GB i have to replace it every 2 months. im going with Western Digital now!

DONT BUY IBM's LARGER THAN 60GB!

-voogru

[YMK]

Yes. My 40Gb 5400RPM died. First it started making weird noises, like screeching and clicking and then it started thinking it was a 1.8Gb drive. Anyway, does anyone know what IBM does with defective drives when they get them? Do they reformat them? Because I forgot to reformat mine before I sent it back so I don't know who has my data now.

[alphageek]

My GPX60 was shiped in buble wrap, sandwiched between the video card and CD-RW when it shiped. I thought it would fail in the first few weeks, but its been going for a month now. Now its in a RAID 0 array and I'm crossing my fingers.

[MrFreeze]

Got my IBM 75GXP 30 gig in october last year after making a stupid little website for the company where my father works. I was very happy with it, it was so **** fast http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif But sadly, after 4 weeks it had some bad sectors on it. Used a program from IBM to reformat(low-level) the whole hard disk, haven't had a problem since then, I'm still very happy about it, love my HD!

But from what i've read we should stay of the 75GXP series and go for the 60GXP.

MrFreeze

[This message has been edited by MrFreeze (edited 08-07-2001).]