here is the senario, i wake up this mornin go to my computer and press the power button. it starts to boot up and then freezes with my hdd makin this scratchin sound :cries: . its not the first time ive heard it, it was happened wheni was tryin to load Jk2 the otherday. now i cant even turn my dam pc on . so im now lookin for a new hdd, i want aound a 60 gig cus im goin to get 2 and RAID them. the ibm hdd is a 75gig one that i bought from overclcockers just under a year ago. Im goin to stay away from IBM i think so if anyone has any ideas on a decent replacement let me no.
another IBM bites the dust... hmm....well only one solution that sticks out in my mind.... Seagate Barracuda IV ...nice n fast and pretty much silent....
cheers flix, might just do that. spose there is one good thing about mu ibm drive screwin up. Gives me one hell of an excuse to upgrade . only prob is what moby to get, i was goin to wait out for a bit to seee some of the new chipsets come out, but still..... Ill finaly be able to get an alpha though which is good.
upgrade time = fun time...if you dont mind waiting, and as ur pc is pretty damn good, just get the new hdds, and wait for the new amd cpus to come out...then youll be cruisin it along....
may i ask how much use you put the ibm throo?, and its specs. was it a gxp 60 ?... i meani dont understand y ppl go throo these like shoes ive had 12 IBM hdds in my 5 yr computer 'life'. all 100% 8 of which i still own.
IBM= made to fail.... the 60GXP series is reccomended to be only used a maximum of 6 horus a day of which 1.2 hours are allowed to be with hdd activity...according to IBM whitepapers....thats why no one likes em no more...
my ibm was a urm......... let me go check, some seconds later ibm 75gxp and i got it round about the 28th august last year (checked my receipt, dam im to organised) as for usauge its on pretty much every day, sometimes ill leave it on all day or other days its only on for about 4hrs, depends what im doin. if its a cwk deadline i workin for then it can be on almost 20hrs.
Another one.... IBMs have serious problems. People know this now. The number of people I heard saying "It's only the 75GXPs, the 60GXPs are fine...." is now rather amusing, as the 60GXP has proved as bad. Seagates are pretty reliable drives, although any hard disk can fail, so keep backups!
get a maxtor they are reliable and i can't hear mine also it is on pretty much 24/7 and never gets warm to the touch very good drives
I have a freind who is getting a new drive and I told him whatever happens DON'T GET AN IBM DRIVE!!! Anyway his freind is a computer engineer. And when he told him what i said he is supposed to have laughed and called me a stupid pr*ck saying that of all the drives he has replaced most are none IBM ones. Now my freind is intent on buying an IBM drive as he takes the computer engineer's word over mine. I am just ranting here really as I can't beleive that a computer engineer doesn't know of the high failure rate of IBM drives so all I can do is sit back on watch the problems.
fujitsu never had a problem with any of the fujitsu drived i own or have owned & the drive is nippy enought for me when reading & writing & my machine is left running 24 hours a day (the only break it gets is a reboot, no power down) plus the drive is still scilent after 2 years heavy use
get what im gettin, SE WD caviar 80gig o0o0o0o, 8mb cache!!!!!!!!!! can i have your ol drive? just to see if i can make it work?
can i have the old drive... we can all play frisbee with it...or take it to bits and put it back and see wether it works then...more likely to work better then a brand new ibm....
well somin else to add question to this problem is the fact that i can still boot my computer in safemode. however i can defrag my c partition, but if i try anyother the hdd makes the sctrachin sound. the drive itself is partition'd into 4, C, D, E,F
well ya can ignore that lst thread now, i cant even boot into safe mode. i scan disked the drive and it found and attempted to fix some bad sectors, sahme it dont work now ive dl'd an ibm util that is sposed to fix them so hopefully it will work. if not it will be goin back to ibm in a body bad. i aint wastin just over 200quid. thye can give me a new one.
I run dual Maxtors on my PC, an 80Gig and 40Gig, not the fastest thing, but good. My FTP which has run for over 30 days before I have needed to shut it down (moving it, the hdds in it, etc...) has shifted 3,490,102.59 MB, since October last year and achieved a total uptime of 158d02:37:53. Over 2TB was downloaded from the server the previous year. The HDDs are cool running and quiet.
just shelled out the cash for an 80 gig maxtor. Model # 6L080L4. I swear its silent. I've had my ear to the one downstairs, which is the model down (just a hair louder) and i can't hear that one. haven't tested this one fully, but from what i've copied to it, i cant hear it at all. have a 20 gig maxtor too. never had a problem with them. i recommend them completely.
WOOHOO, fixed it. dl'd a hdd utility of the ibm website which seems to have fixed it for now, shame i had to do a re-install.never mind was goin to do one anyway. spose the good thing is that i nolonger have to get a new hdd and i can save my money and perhaps get a new gpx card, the Gainward GEforce 4 powerpack ultra 750xp golden sample looks liek a good one, might just wait and see if the new matrox gpx'z are any good with there 512 gpus and dx 9 support.
