IBM has a new line of Deathstars out

[sbp]

Anyone going to buy one?

pr: http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/press/20020930.htm

[nexus_7]

lol

Greg

[Jim Z]

F**k no. I've had three 60GXPs, all have needed to be RMA'd. I'll stick to WD and Maxtor for now.

[RubberDuckie]

Ive had a 75GXP for about 1 year now .... no problems what so ever.
Of course it is cooled.
I heard most of the IBMs that failed have not been cooled.
Im not saying you should cool a HDD....I dont think you should have to have a fan on your HDD.
Just that in my case it sits infront of a fan and I have had 0 problems with it. In fact I love it.
*fingers crossed*

[Schwartz]

I've never had a IBM drive and I don't plan on having one.

[honz]

2 60GXP's running in a mirror right now. no fan or cooling watsoever and not much probs

< fingers also crossed >

[Executioner]

Originally posted by RubberDuckie
Ive had a 75GXP for about 1 year now .... no problems what so ever.
Of course it is cooled.
I heard most of the IBMs that failed have not been cooled.
Im not saying you should cool a HDD....I dont think you should have to have a fan on your HDD.
Just that in my case it sits infront of a fan and I have had 0 problems with it. In fact I love it.
*fingers crossed*

My 60GXP has a dual cooler since day one when I bought it 12 months ago. I've had no problems with the drive, but I doubt I'll buy another death star soon.

[Jim Z]

all of mine had direct cooling. Didn't stop them from dying.

[ShibasScotch]

can we say "WD JB series WANNABE?" NEVER AGAIN WITH IBM !

[sbp]

Some gentlemen is having weird sounds with his Deathstars, contacted IBM about it and this is what happened:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr ... #post26614

"Hmmm, IBM basically said they don't care until the drive itself falls apart or crashes. They too told me to back it up but if I am to return it they would power it up, not see the problem and they would ship it out again. I said, "Are you serious??". Yep they were. Of course they asked me if I used their utilities which I said yes and they didn't find a problem and they told me that it could be fragmented. So seeing how it is running NTFS and NTFS is supposed to be good for fragmentation I took a look. Not a problem.

But thanks everyone and definitely I'm going to back this drive up. I suspect a month or two it will go belly up"

[Snatchface]

Oh c'mon now...are you all forgetting? These things run in cycles. There was a time when WD was the balls-worst HDD mfgr and their drives were crashing more than a liquored up hooker in a Ferrari on Friday night. And at that time IBM drives were the best. Then Maxtor was the best and now they're kinda fading out a little and WD took over again. I think they just take turns on who works out the kinks in the latest technology first. I'm sure IBM will be good again at some point.