Re: IBM Hard disk failures (WasRe: Any brutal hard drive burn-in programs?)
hi ya
yuppers... dont buy 40GB ide disks from IBM made in thailand or hungry...
( you;ll be sorry later if its a mission critical servers )
- think somebody was trying to be nice to one of their buddies
and ibm's name got dragged into a bad quality disk drive
- ibm drives was supposed to be amongst the best up till that flop
( 4GB, 8GB, 10GB, 20GB, 30GB, 40GB(screwed up)...
- have a bunch of them IBM 40GB DeskStar series drives myself..
that have died while in production environment
( burn in tests would NOT have caught it )
- IBM has a 3 or 4 yr warranty on those drives....
c ya
alvin
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
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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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