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02-16-2004, 11:50 PM
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| IBM GXP Deliberate Deception yes Last edited by hotcpu : 02-22-2004 at 07:43 PM. |
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02-17-2004, 04:58 AM
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| Well, I think they are already paying for this. I personally have only had one (1) IBM disk go bad on me. At the moment I have a number of 120GXP and 180 GXP disks in use, that works fine, only one older, that is going to be replaced. So personally I have good experiences. But still, all the rumors about uncertain IBM disks has made me buy Maxtor and Western Digital disks for all my new systems. I might buy IBM again. But the way that they are described here of covering up problems sure does not make me more confident in the company. It is easy to destroy a good brand name, it is far more difficult - and expensive - to build it up again... |
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02-17-2004, 08:52 PM
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02-17-2004, 09:04 PM
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| I've had 20+ IBM 60GXP 40Gs fail on me at work At home 2 75GXP Failed twice, 1 Total Loss, the other I could backup I am now using 2 180G IBMs, they are OK so far (1 year now) but they need thermal calibration, which scares the hell out of me. I would consider Hitachi Drives in the future since recently our IBM HD death rates have dropped. But I would rather consider Seagate 100G platter drives when they come out Attention, never use 75GXP or 60GXP as a system drive. Only use it as a backup drive. You never know when it will keel over |
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02-17-2004, 09:20 PM
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| No I donīt know if its worth the risk... |
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02-18-2004, 09:19 PM
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| i have high hopes for Hitachi but they should price their drives like seagate |
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