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rowan · 01-19-2005, 10:39 PM

I read a couple of years ago that IBM drives are now rebadged drives from other manufacturers such as Samsung. From memory there were 3 manufacturers making the same models, so you never really knew where it came from.

Is this still the case?

I've had an IBM deskstar drive go out - I researched it and the best guess is that the head erased/wrote whilst it was seeking over the disk. Big no-no! Kind of like splashing white-out across a typed sheet of paper... most of the data is still there, but as a whole the document is ruined. I was able to low level format the drive and it's working fine now, but I can't trust that drive (or rather its firmware) any more. Who knows when it will next energise the erase heads at the wrong moment.

01-19-2005, 10:39 PM
rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	I read a couple of years ago that IBM drives are now rebadged drives from other manufacturers such as Samsung. From memory there were 3 manufacturers making the same models, so you never really knew where it came from. Is this still the case? I've had an IBM deskstar drive go out - I researched it and the best guess is that the head erased/wrote whilst it was seeking over the disk. Big no-no! Kind of like splashing white-out across a typed sheet of paper... most of the data is still there, but as a whole the document is ruined. I was able to low level format the drive and it's working fine now, but I can't trust that drive (or rather its firmware) any more. Who knows when it will next energise the erase heads at the wrong moment.