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Summary: need help
Review: can you use this for ibm think pad like T21 or do you need to buy Hitachi hard drive
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Summary: Very High Failure Rating
Review: I don't recommend this drive to anyone. The failures are extremely high with the GXP series. I have had mine for six months and it is starting to fail. It is still under warranty, but I do not want another IBM. I have decided to purchase either a Maxtor or Seagate for a replacement. IF you are currently using this drive, back up your data and get a new non IBM GXP drive. Thanks to IBM, I have 45GB of data to try and salvage.
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Summary: Very High Failure Rating
Review: OK, first off, this is an ATA-5 drive, and IBM has an ATA-6 drive which several sites have for about (+ ~ 10%) the same as this. ATA-6 will run at burst rate of 133 MB/sec.But hold on...let's talk more about this drive. It is easy to install -- like any HD, put into the cage, screw in, attach slave mid-clip from IDE cable + power mid-clip -- and off you go. But I did this and the speed is dreadful when checked by several tools (e.g., Sisoft Sandra) as well as my own ability to just see how slow my machine became. Problem is likely that you'll need a Promise IDE car to support ATA-5/100, even if your BIOS or O/S (mine's XP Pro) indicates it knows it's an ATA-5/100 drive. So, know what you're getting (last year's hard drive) and that you might need to [spend some more money] for a new card as well.
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Summary: WYSI NOT WYG
Review: OK, first off, this is an ATA-5 drive, and IBM has an ATA-6 drive which several sites have for about (+ ~ 10%) the same as this. ATA-6 will run at burst rate of 133 MB/sec. But hold on...let's talk more about this drive. It is easy to install -- like any HD, put into the cage, screw in, attach slave mid-clip from IDE cable + power mid-clip -- and off you go. But I did this and the speed is dreadful when checked by several tools (e.g., Sisoft Sandra) as well as my own ability to just see how slow my machine became. Problem is likely that you'll need a Promise IDE car to support ATA-5/100, even if your BIOS or O/S (mine's XP Pro) indicates it knows it's an ATA-5/100 drive. So, know what you're getting (last year's hard drive) and that you might need to [spend some more money] for a new card as well.
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Summary: Maybe OK eventually, but catastrophic failure after 5 days
Review: Purchased because of the favorable reviews here and in magazines. Installed as second drive in Gateway machine with Win 98. Formatted, partitioned and allowed to burn in for 5 days. On fifth day, started upgrade to WinXP Pro. Drive failed totally during reformat. IBM diagnostics showed device failure, so I've sent it in for warranty service. Will be without the drive for nearly 4 weeks. Maybe unusual experience, given the reputation of the drive, but the slow service for replacement is problematic.
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Summary: Excellent drive
Review: This drive is a very good purchase for any computer entusiast. I always bought Western Digital drives in the past, and I refused to buy other brands because WD never failed to me and also my friends had problems with Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung and other brands. Some months ago I was needing a fast and large drive (60 GB or more), so I was ahead and buy this drive. I was amazed by its speed, it's really fast and quiet. I tried it for video and audio encoding and I've never had a problem with it. And it seems like I will never run out of space with 80GB available! ;) Highly recommended.
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Summary: Excellent drive
Review: This drive, which I recently purchased, tops even Maxtor's fastest drive. It's too bad Quantum isn't around anymore - I have an old Quantum 20GB Fireball 7200 RPM which is DAMN fast. However, the reliability, speed, and just overall quality is outstanding with all of the Deskstar Drives. A very reliable benchmark put this drive within 15% of a SCSI drive !! Not bad for [price]. One cautionary note - make sure your motherboard supports UDMA 100 or greater, or purchase a Promise Technology adapter card. It will NOT be as fast if you do not use the UDMA tech.
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Summary: IBM Drives are a Quantum leap over all others.
Review: This drive, which I recently purchased, tops even Maxtor's fastest drive. It's too bad Quantum isn't around anymore - I have an old Quantum 20GB Fireball 7200 RPM which is DAMN fast. However, the reliability, speed, and just overall quality is outstanding with all of the Deskstar Drives. A very reliable benchmark put this drive within 15% of a SCSI drive !! Not bad for [price]. One cautionary note - make sure your motherboard supports UDMA 100 or greater, or purchase a Promise Technology adapter card. It will NOT be as fast if you do not use the UDMA tech.
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