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Originally posted by erehwon
Never had any problems with IBM drives, I make it a point to try and buy them exclusively. 
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How long since you last purchased one? IBM haven't made their own drives for at least a couple of years, I think at one stage they were just rebadging Hitachi, Seagate and Samsung models.
I didn't even realise that Hitachi =<b></b>= IBM drives now, until I purchased a new drive and it looked EXACTLY the same as my dead one.
You've never heard about the Deskstar GXP "screech of death" problems? Mine didn't fail mechanically (yet), but plenty have... I think the percentage of returns was exceeding double figures for a while.