FUCK FUCK FUCK IBM DESKSTAR HD's.

[goBigtime]

That's all.

Stupid motherfuckers and their recycling of cheap components.

Yet another IBM Deskstar crash. No more.

I'm replacing them all now.

.... Even IBM Thinkpads have used the same jacked up components for that cant-catch-me gingerbreadman trackpoint for the past 10 years or so.

IBM is such a shit company =(


Ok.. that's all.

[MrPopup]

Class Action Lawsuit?


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"Sean Kelly asks: "Like a lot of other people, I went out and bought myself a nice 60GB IBM DeskStar 75GXP (ATA100, 7200rpm) hard drive to put in my sparkling new computer. Boy was that a mistake! A few months after I got the drive, it failed with horrific grinding and clicking noises, plus random data loss. So I RMA'd the first one and got a 'SERVICEABLE USED PART' replacement from IBM, which died of the same death after another few months. Not getting the hint, I RMA'd that one. Last week, I got the refab. drive back from IBM and it has already died, in less than a week! This time I did some site searching and found many people are having problems with this drive. Sites such as The Inquirer, Hexus, Tech Report, Hardware One, Sysopt, and even this PCWorld have dedicated articles, forums and user reviews to these failing and defective drives. From what I can understand, IBM is not publicly acknowledging that they screwed up here. How many other people out there have had their 75GXP (or 60GXP) drives fail? What size were they? What part number? What did IBM do about it? It is my opinion that IBM should do something about this, since I've seen an unnaturally high number of complaints about this drive now that I started looking for customer feedback. Also, here is a letter I sent to IBM explaining my frustration with them. It has more information in it." "

FROM http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...thread&tid=136

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DJ STORM writes: "IBM has decided to exit the hard drive market citing the market has become too competitive.They plan to sell 70% of the their HD business to Hitachi. The new company name is unknown. One has to wonder if this has anything to do with IBM's troubled Deskstar GXP series." IBM will still have part ownership of the resulting venture, but it sounds like no more Deskstars. Update: 04/17 16:33 GMT by T: You may also find interesting some older posts about IBM's work on increasing hard drive storage (1, 2, 3); hopefully, the new company will continue that R&D effort.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...thread&tid=137

[nazgul]

Dude,

That sucks, ran into the same problem here. Apparently ibm put out a whole batch of bad drives. All of them were made from like march to july or so. We had to replace 5 60 GB drivers here.


So i feel your pain

[goBigtime]

Originally posted by MrPopup
Class Action Lawsuit?

I would much rather have all the lost data back than the $1.74 that I would be awarded as part of this class

But yeah I'm glad they are getting reamed over it. Someone should start a class action for thinkpad trackpoints next.

Anyone have a thinkpad? You know what I'm talking about.. your mouse pointer will start roaming all over the screen out of the blue. It's because of shitty parts. They "fixed" it by writing software that senses when its moving on its own ... so the way YOU fix it is, when it starts moving around, you have to just leave it alone for a couple seconds and it will figure out that it was moving & reset it sell. What a shame.

They have known about that for like 10 years and still use the same defective parts.

[goBigtime]

Originally posted by nazgul
Dude,

That sucks, ran into the same problem here. Apparently ibm put out a whole batch of bad drives. All of them were made from like march to july or so. We had to replace 5 60 GB drivers here.


So i feel your pain

What sucks is this is one of my personal unix machine drives...Lots of goodies and irreplaceable data was on it. I was JUST about to back it up too. Argh.

[damac]

I just had my second ibm drive go out in 2 years, the 75gxp model must be fucked.

I just sent it in to rma and ibm is handling this rma, I hope I get a newer model back cause this is bullshit.

But they made the switch over to hitachi now, and I have no clue what they are changing hardware wise, but hopefully its for the better. If I remember correctly new drives will only have a one year warranty from now on.

[Libertine]

Burn all your important data to cd a few times a week, and you won't have any of that crap. (losing important data, that is)

[Ludedude]

Originally posted by damac
I just had my second ibm drive go out in 2 years, the 75gxp model must be fucked.

It's not fucked at all, it (like the 60gxp, 120gxp and a few others) are NOT RATED for continuous service. Yep, that's right. You read correctly. Those fancy deskstar drives are only rated for about 40 hours per week of use. What's that? You leave your machine on 24/7? You work more than 40 hours a week? Too bad...your fancy deskstar POS drive is not rated for that use.

It's true.

Read the fine print.

http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/3494

[AWC]

I just had a 120GB Maxtor ATA133 7200RPM drive that was 5 weeks old take a shit on me... SUX bigtime.

[sweandy]

I'm just up running again after 3days of trixing with my crashed ibm disk. I made the misstake of running my boot system and all programs on a ibm deskstar. Fucking hate it. Had to re-install everything.

[FlyingIguana]

a tech i know calls them travelstar's. the reason being, they're always travelling back to ibm for warranty work.

western digital, quantum or seagate is what i use from now on