Guess you never had a 75GXP

Post #74,744 by admin 1/15/03 9:06:50 PM Reply	Guess you never had a 75GXP Which are notorious for failures... they were hit with a class action suit over them, and the 75 series was likely the cause of the HD division's sale to Hitachi. [link\|http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5871\|http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5871] - Hungarian plant closed due to 75 series quality control. [link\|http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=2789\|http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=2789] - 120GXP drives should only be on 8 hours per day [link\|http://www.storagereview.com/map/lm.cgi/survey_login\|http://www.storagere....cgi/survey_login] - reliability database. The IBM drives that they have collected enough results on so far have percentile scores of 63, 22, 14, 8, and 4. (percentile score meaning the drive has a better reliability reported than eg. 63% of the other drives in the survey) Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #74,745 by deSitter 1/15/03 9:15:59 PM Reply	Wow - one got through Eventually of course GMR will be the standard. One reason IBM has a good reputation for hardware is conservative design. Looks like this one didn't follow that pattern. Nevertheless, I now admit IBM has made at least one bad family of drives. -drl
Post #74,746 by admin 1/15/03 9:17:24 PM Reply	Actually it was two. The 60GXPs were bad as well, just not AS bad. Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #74,934 by tonytib 1/16/03 4:02:15 PM Reply	Actually, IIRC the problem was glass platters not GMR heads. Glass is used is most (all?) laptop drives, but IIRC 60GXP & 75GXP were earlier adopters of glass for desktop drives. Tony
Post #74,943 by deSitter 1/16/03 5:12:26 PM Reply	Re: Actually, IIRC the problem was glass platters Interesting - of course glass is a strange solid - more like a liquid really. Probably a basic materials oops during design. -drl
Post #74,747 by Another Scott 1/15/03 9:19:25 PM Reply	I've got a 60 GB 75GXP at work. The first time I defragged it it made a horrible clanking noise and I was sure it was going to die in the next few minutes. I posted [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=15789\|here] about it (I still haven't installed the Seagate replacement.). But that was well over a year ago now.... It's been fine and subsequent defrags have been quiet and uneventful. I keep an eye on its S.M.A.R.T. parameters with [link\|http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php\|SpeedFan] and so far it looks fine. But the 8 hours on-time and so forth do cause me to worry about the reliability of drives these days. Cheers, Scott.
Post #74,748 by deSitter 1/15/03 9:27:59 PM Reply	About 8 hours.. I'd be amazed if this advice wasn't given in lieu of having an immediate warranty replacement available. I just can't believe IBM told its customers - "Sorry, the MTBF of your drive has gone from 20000 hours to 8. Thank you for choosing IBM!" -drl

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