It isn't an IBM Deskstar is it? Those things die like hermit crabs. The problem is all the manufacturers are giving only 1 year warrenty's anymore, and not the standard 3 year warrenties. The reason for this is they know they build crappy drives. RMA it back to IBM and get a new one, then take it back to wherever you bought it from. Or ebay it. Someone will buy an 80 gig drive off you. BTW: HI! and merry crimmus foofy!
High failure rate in IBM ATA drives a known issuechipadeedoodahDecember 24 2002, 07:25:18 UTC
IBM's GXP line (specifically the 75GXP and the 60GXP, with some improvement in the 120GXP) of ATA hard disks are known for extremely high failure rates.
Sadly for Joel, I remember reading about a bad run of Fujitsu's as well.
In fact, most HDD makers cut back their warranties to 1 year in 2002, from the usual 3, leading me to believe that backups / RAID are only going to get more important.
Sorry to hear 'bout your disk crash though. Always sucks. Seems like Maxtor's one of the most reliable vendors out there anymore. What's this world come to!?
Ah hard drives.. it's what brrrrings us togethergesellschaftoiDecember 30 2002, 17:58:15 UTC
:P I've had maybe 20-30 maxtor drives.. I believe I've one that still works.. of course.. not once of them is more than maybe 800MB. I find the generation and model of drives is more important than the manufactur :/ as for IBM.. while I was working there I over heard some information from the VP of storage manufacturing or whatever that I'm not aloud to repeat due to that confidentiality agreement stuff.. but I never read anywhere that stated I couldn't speculate.. and based on what I know from inside.. plus what I've heard outside.. I'm truely curious if IBM's selling of their entire HDD portion of the company had to do, in some way, with dodging the bullets of expected HDD failures due to 'oops (I can't get in trouble for saying "oops" can I?) hehe Knowing it's stability and manufacure, I purchased a GXP50 7200 which has operated flawlessly for the past few years. My suggestion? Stick with a smaller and reliable drive.. use then extra $ to purchase some form of mass back up such as DVD-RW.. and keep all them install disks and
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Sadly for Joel, I remember reading about a bad run of Fujitsu's as well.
In fact, most HDD makers cut back their warranties to 1 year in 2002, from the usual 3, leading me to believe that backups / RAID are only going to get more important.
Sorry to hear 'bout your disk crash though. Always sucks. Seems like Maxtor's one of the most reliable vendors out there anymore. What's this world come to!?
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I've bought over 30 of them in the past 10 years, none have failed, and all run 24/7.
For the price, if you're really worried, you can buy two, and run in a raid mirror array, so if one dies you lose nothing and replace it.
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