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Hmmm, I gotta get this 40gig 60gxp that died on me replaced 
Hopefully, i'll get one of the newer drives back (like a 180gxp)
Hopefully, i'll get one of the newer drives back (like a 180gxp)
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80% of people think I should be in a Mental Institute
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Quantum 2GB - died after 3 years (physical failure)
Seagate 40 GB - excellent drive
Maxtor 40 GB - excellent drive
Toshiba 40 GB - tad slow (laptop), but ..excellent drive
I'll be staying away from IBM ....such a pity. They used to make great hard drives!
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How about changing the web page too.
Total data disintergration ?????Comment
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Here I have:Originally posted by GuchiGuh
Quantum 2GB - died after 3 years (physical failure)
Seagate 40 GB - excellent drive
Maxtor 40 GB - excellent drive
Toshiba 40 GB - tad slow (laptop), but ..excellent drive
I'll be staying away from IBM ....such a pity. They used to make great hard drives!
-Quantum LPS 270 MB SCSI drive: still living, though I have it since 198x, just not really in use anymore nowadays (sits in my external SCSI Minitower)
-Seagate Barracuda 2GB SCSI drive: Still working flawlessly (in my Amiga setup), despite its age (I think 1993 or so?). Extremely LOUD drive (one of the first 7200RPM HDs).
-IBM DDRS 8GB SCSI drive: quite some years old, but still working (I still have my Win2k partition and some backup data on it..)
-4x IBM GXP IDE drives: well, one working out of four after two years aint bad, is it?
-WD 800 JB 80GB IDE: working flawlessly, but too new to really say anything about reliability (quite loud drive)
-Samsung Spinpoint 160GB IDE: well, only four months old, so no statement about reliability. But it's for sure the quietest HD I've ever (not) heard...Last edited by Indiana; 19 February 2004, 14:04.Comment
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I bought 2 45 gig gxps.
They died within a week of each other one year later.
IBM replaced them with 2 60 gig drive.
They died within a week of each other 3 months later.
They were replaced by 2 more 60 gig drives, which I now have in a mirror set on our file/printer server.
If one of those goes out I don't know what I would do with the remaining one. I can't imagine trusting one that is not part of a mirror set.
I guess I would get a new WD 200 gig and put the GXP on a shelf.
Or use it as a paper weight.
chuckChuck
秋音的爸爸
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IBM DAQA something 2GB... was going strong till retirement after six years or so
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Yup, the older ones were great.
I've got a 10 gig as the system drive in our file/printer server.
And an 8 gig that's part of a temp stripe set in my oun machine.
They are both quite old & still going strong.
chuckChuck
秋音的爸爸
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I've got 3 IBM drives: 9, 15, 40 and they all still work wonderfully. I used to swear by IBM drives, but when the whole Deathstar issue came up I was sure glad I got the 40 before then. Also happy that Seagate's 'Cuda IVs came along when deciding on a brand to buy afterwards.Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra 9, Opteron 170 Denmark 2x2Ghz, 2 GB Corsair XMS, Gigabyte 6600, Gentoo Linux
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Yes the older IBM drives before the GXP-fiasco were relly good drives, that's the pity.
As stated above, my old IBM DDRS 8MB still is my Win2k boot HD and is used for storage-data as I still trust it more (it's the only SCSI drive in my PC) than my newer drives.Comment
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Did IBM give you earmuffs with the hard drive. It sure as hell needs themOriginally posted by Indiana
Yes the older IBM drives before the GXP-fiasco were relly good drives, that's the pity.
As stated above, my old IBM DDRS 8MB still is my Win2k boot HD and is used for storage-data as I still trust it more (it's the only SCSI drive in my PC) than my newer drives.
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@the pit:
u talking to me boy?Comment
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