| Reviewed By:BJ |
Date: 10-DEC-04 |
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I just wanted to add my own complaints about the drive to the long list. I was using it as a backup drive when the read problems started happening unexpectedly.
It was rather poor timing as well, considering I needed it for a college final (we were making a video project). I started working on the film when it started making clicking noises. Im currently using a recovery program to attempt to get the beginning of the video off, but the program is detecting several areas of bad sectors.
The 'DEATH'star really lives up to its name.
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| Reviewed By:Mono Sodium |
Date: 28-AUG-04 |
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Got this drive back in 2002, started clicking and crunching after about a year, managed to backup everything, then a few months later i plugged it in again worked fine up until last week. now it isnt reconized by the bios, just Click's a few times when powered up. Really pissed off because i was using it as an archive drive and havent backed it up for ages, lost loads and loads, now trying to find another drive to canabilize to try and get my data off. DONT BUY IBM DEATHSTAR DRIVES - YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!
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| Reviewed By:mr anderson |
Date: 07-JUL-04 |
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these are the biggest piles of dung i've ever come accross in my 12 years of experience
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| Reviewed By:Chis |
Date: 26-APR-04 |
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Had two of them. Both died after 2/3 years respectively. Both started clicking every now and then, but power off/on would help. One day it didn't, just click - click - click... probably the HD firmware looking for some system data gone south...
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| Reviewed By:jasbo27 |
Date: 03-MAR-04 |
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Mine was bought in January 2002, and it failed after
3 months. So i put it on my shelfbook, and after another 3 months i put it into my comp and the HDD started without this scrathing sound. Today - March 2004 it started giving that sound again, and it seems like i have bakup my data again :-)
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| Reviewed By:feralchook |
Date: 25-FEB-04 |
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and another one bites the dust...
Built Thailand July 2001, died Melbourne Australia Feb 2004.
Useless piece of rubbish.
Yet the DTLA 307030 30 gig from Nov '98 still works a treat, *touch wood*
:)
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| Reviewed By:Bob |
Date: 19-DEC-03 |
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Drive was made in Thailand in March 2002 and died yesterday 12/18/03 very suddenly. Many many clusters have gone south. Luckily I back up regularly and didn't loose anything. Good luck.
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| Reviewed By:mick094m |
Date: 29-NOV-03 |
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will never ever purchase a product manufactured by IBM
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| Reviewed By:peter |
Date: 10-OCT-03 |
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Yes I knew it! It is probably the harddisk that has given my all sorts of trouble these last couple of months. Not been able to boot, find system files, inconsistency.... list is long.
I also bought it sometime in december 2001.
Extremely bad quality!
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| Reviewed By:Ben Thomas |
Date: 20-SEP-03 |
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Complete shit. I've had no success with it whatsoever, and after about a year it slows down from zooming and cruising to grandma with a walker. I can't believe I bought this. 60 gigs was enticing at the time, but unfortunately it proved to be a lemon. Any way to fix the ridiculous time it takes to load up anything?
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| Reviewed By:rom |
Date: 20-SEP-03 |
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Hello,
I came back from job today, my computer was making a help-help noise, the system even hanged up...it was this IBM HD trying to do read and failling to read...it is DEAD. Seems that I just entered the "got fooled by IBM" club today: 60 Gigs of my OWN music(the one i play myself!!!) is gone, I would hang myself if I did not back up my stuff on an another drive 2 weeks ago. My IBM drive can thank my Seageate drive for the backup. THIS IBM serie SUCKS!!! DO NOT BUY IT.
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| Reviewed By:Mini_driver |
Date: 22-AUG-03 |
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I should have found this thread earlier. After about a year and a half, my drive just gave up on me this week. Same problem as everyone else is seeing...it started making this grinding noise, and now isn't even recognized by my system anymore. I've never had a hard drive fail before, much less while using it for less than 2 years. Luckily I backed my stuff up not too long ago, but this still sucks. I'm never buying another IBM product.
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| Reviewed By:mald |
Date: 09-AUG-03 |
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As soon as you hear the first clicking noise evacuate that drive - immediately!
It happened on boot up, strange noise and drive not detected. Tried it several times. Suddenly it came up again. Partitions visible and readable. Started copying, an sector error occured. Noticed the drive got extremely hot. I placed an huge fan on it and copied the rest (without any error). Checked everything. Data seemed o.k. (huge zip collections with correct crc). After the drive cooled down it never worked again.
HD is 1,5 years old, 1,5 years warranty left.
Be primed, hurry and good luck
(never leave really important data on just one HD)
mald
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| Reviewed By:steve.uk |
Date: 17-JUN-03 |
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i visited this site about three weeks ago and read all the poor reviews of this product. following this i decided that i was going to buy 2x maxtor 120gb drives and set up a raid 1 configuration.
before i got chance to install them, my deskstar died. 2 years old. no warning signs, just refused to boot one day and never worked again.
over 1500 mp3 files gone. thank god for kazaa!
don't buy this product just because it's cheaper than its competitors.
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| Reviewed By:Chen |
Date: 22-MAY-03 |
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Just now my one year 60GB harddisk died. One week's work lost.... Be careful for this product!!
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| Reviewed By:John |
Date: 11-MAY-03 |
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Used for 2 years in a gaming desktop PC with no problem. Recommendable.
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| Reviewed By:Shawarma |
Date: 31-MAR-03 |
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First used 2001-12-25 01:10.
Time of death: 2003-03-31 13:45.
Used in:
Home workstation:
2001-12-25 2002-09-01
24/7 server:
2002-09-01 to medio february 2003
Home workstation:
Medio february 2003 to death
Nnnnggggghhhhhhh... This really ticks me off. ALL my important data was on that one. Fsck!
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| Reviewed By:Paetur |
Date: 03-MAR-03 |
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1 year and 1 day after I bought my Deskstar it died. I hadn't really had any problems with my hdd before that, so it came quite as a shock when i died. I had a lot of data on it, which I fortunately recovered with a recovery program. But the hdd is still down... Made in Thailand Dec.2001.
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| Reviewed By:Andy O.Verezhak |
Date: 18-FEB-03 |
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My hdd was a secondary drive on my server. HDD was bought at December 2001 it died at February 2003. Only 3 GB from 60 GB was used. Only 10 reset was done during work period. If you buy the same drive during aproximately the same period you need to backup your data and be very carefull.
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| Reviewed By:tell |
Date: 01-FEB-03 |
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My IBM Deskstar died this morning.
I bought it 10 months ago.
It was made in Thailand OCT-2001.
It was not under heavy use and its departure came without warning.
There were no grinding noises, it performed fine until yesterday.
This morning Windows could not boot because of file corruption.
Scandisk could not fix the drive.
The drive cannot be formatted either.
Formatting stopped at 74 % (it took the formatting 3 hours to get to 74%).
When I researched diagnostic and repair tools I became aware of the fact that these drives are failing at an alarming rate. Horror stories everywhere. The drive is apparently part of a bad production batch.
If you have this drive - back up now!
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| Reviewed By:Walter |
Date: 30-JAN-03 |
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Had my IBM Hard Drive for about 2 years. All of a sudden i started hearing strange noises for the unit and then my pc could not detect the hard drive. This is not good
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| Reviewed By:Khab |
Date: 28-JAN-03 |
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Bought one of these about a year and a half ago, and I've had zero problems with it.
After reading the horror stories tho, I'll be sure to bakc important stuff up.
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| Reviewed By:Screwed |
Date: 27-JAN-03 |
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I thought I did my homework. The previous models were supposed to be the deathstars. I was happy at the quiet ride and performance of this HDD. Then 1 year and 1 day (what timing!) after installing the drive while defragging it went into a clik-clik-clik freeze up. WTF over? I start troubleshooting and I still don't believe my findings. The only way I could make the drive usable again was to slick it with zeros using IBM's Disk Fitness Test. No more clicking noises, formated NTFS and it ran smooth again. As soon as I hooked up my primary slave, a Maxtor 18GB it died again with the same clicking. I ran the zeroes/reformat evolution again but I tried connecting a Maxtor 9GB and it worked ok. As soon as I disconnect the 9GB Maxtor and run the deathstar solo, the BIOS doesn't see the drive. Man-o-day what a POS!
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| Reviewed By:savetz |
Date: 16-JAN-03 |
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Bought two of these drives in Feb 2002 - 11 months later both are still working perfectly.
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| Reviewed By:Shaun |
Date: 15-JAN-03 |
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Looks like I read these reviews too late. My drive just died (less than 4 months old, too). I bought IBM because of good experiences with them in the past (this model in particular was ranked pretty high). But this particular model appears to be quite the lemon. Many die before the year is up.
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| Reviewed By:dbl00buk |
Date: 01-JAN-03 |
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I bought a loaded custom PC one year ago with the
IBM IC35L060AVER07-0 hard drive. Performance was excellent with next to nill down time. Three weeks ago, I began hearing the hard drive making substantially abnormal type HDD noises. These noises seem to come and go but when they came it sounded like (in laymen's terms)an old Chevy clutch trying to make proper contact to a pressure plate. In other words...loud enough to be annoying!! Opening the case and rebooting I confirmed the fact. I am to assume, based on other reviews, a funeral may be in order for this drive not too long in the future. I have taken all necessary steps for the coming of my HDD meltdown. Rip-off?? Could be. I had other choices but didn't research before I bought....take heed!!
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| Reviewed By:stranger86 |
Date: 23-DEC-02 |
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my 60GB drive died tonight, don't sure about warranty, nearly 1 year old hdd :(
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| Reviewed By:Irish Rover |
Date: 28-NOV-02 |
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Both are dead ... what do I do now?????????????
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| Reviewed By:Kool |
Date: 19-NOV-02 |
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Also bought 2 of these IBM 60GB Hard Disk last December 2001, they also both died within one year with the dreaded, "click, click, click" sound, had to use IBM recovery disk to low level format both drives. They are currently fine, but not sure for how long though.
I plan to buy some Seagate Barracuda V 120 GBs to replace the IBM 'DEATHSTAR' drives soon.
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| Reviewed By:Smoke Screen |
Date: 17-OCT-02 |
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Errrm. I had two of this Harddrives and both died
in less than one year........
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