One of my 15Gig IBM deskstar's has just failed and I've been hearing stories of even the new 60GXP's failing quite alot too - anyone know why? Is it due to the high FSB's that people are running these days or is IBM's drive reliability going downhill? Any thoughts?
I would suspect (but I don't know for sure) that the drives reliability is the sam as the previous models. I think they have just become so popular now that when they fail you hear about it from lots of people. I'm sure Maxtor/Seagate etc drive fail on a regular basis, but they don't seem as popular so you don't hear about it as much. Just my tuppence worth
I have had problems with these drives.... The problem is the connections on the PCB if you unplug/plug your HDD alot then it weakens these connections causing failure. Don't buy IBM if you are like me and like to swap hardware in your machine 3 times a day!
one of my maxtors went tits up about a week ago when i RMA it it'll be the 2nd hard drive i've had to RMA in a month
Yep my one sort of died, due to the connection. If u moved the connector then it would work again it was a bastatd if it moved on its own when burning. So many wasted cds 4-6 week wait for replacement
