IBM Hard disk failures (WasRe: Any brutal hard drive burn-in programs?)
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On Tuesday 13 August 2002 02:55 pm, nate wrote:
> in my experience(and i've had about 16-17 drives fail on me in
> the last year), burning in doesn't mean much. Most of my drives died
> several months after they were put into production, after they passed
> the vendor's burn-in, my burn-in, and 2-3 months of real world usage.
> (~95% of my failed drives were IBM 75GXP avoid them at all costs).
I have followed several threads over the last two months regarding IBM hard
disk drives failing. This type of advice always seems to me to be a good
'red flag' indicator to follow when suggesting manufactures or when seeking
drives for yourself.
I currently have an IBM 60gb drive that is dynamite. It is fast, quiet, and
has been completely reliable. My decision to use IBM came after repeated
failures with Western Digital drives on a host of OS's.
My question is simple: Would the majority of users here still avoid IBM
drives, or was this a foul quirk of a single bad line of drives from IBM?
My next question would be: What has/is IBM doing about this bad PR?
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