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Originally Posted by notabook
Aye, the old IBM drives before Hitachi took over their HD dev. sucked total ass, the IBM deskstars were just about the only drives that could compete with maxtor in terms of pure shittiness. After Hitachi took over though, the drives are completely awesome. I've yet to have one fail, been using them since 2k3.
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I have a Deskstar 60Gb from October 2001. It never did the click of death, but one day a huge number of sectors (like 30-40%) suddenly went bad. Through some research it appears that it's a firmware bug that energises the write head WHILE IT IS MOVING ACROSS THE PLATTER.
All data was lost because every track had multiple sectors corrupted.
The real kick in the teeth is that after using an IBM low level format utility it works just fine. I doubt I'll ever use it again because I don't know when/if it's going to spray whiteout over my data. For now it's sitting in plastic a HD carrier doing nothing...