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Summary: Known to crash
Review: 6 mo. old drive works good but crashes when warmmed up. Was told they have faulty controllers that are sensitive to heat. Can't take a defragmentation with out crashing soon after in a 60 deg.f room
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Summary: Waste of money
Review: Currently I'm going trough the 4th (yes, 4th!) replacement for this drive. IBM doesn't mention that the warranty replacements for these HDD's (and entire DeskStar line!) are actually HDD's refurbished by used parts in Hungary.
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Summary: First hard drive to ever crash on me
Review: Do your research before you consider buying ANY IBM Deskstar drive. Unfortunately, when I bought this drive, there weren't many reported problems...yet. There are rumors of a faulty batch of drives, but I think the truth is, it was an engineering flaw. My drive actually lasted 1 year, longer than many others. Then, it started making the dreaded clicking and spinning noises. I was lucky enough to lose only 1 partition and could backup the rest. Now I'm hesitant about even sending this drive back to IBM, just to receive a refurbished one, which could be in worse condition. I think I'm gonna get a new drive (probably Western Digital) and use this one as a backup. There's no advantage to getting an IBM Deskstar, even if it's cheaper.. so just stay away.
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Summary: Stay away from IBM Deskstars! PLEASE!!
Review: Do your research before you consider buying ANY IBM Deskstar drive. Unfortunately, when I bought this drive, there weren't many reported problems...yet. There are rumors of a faulty batch of drives, but I think the truth is, it was an engineering flaw. My drive actually lasted 1 year, longer than many others. Then, it started making the dreaded clicking and spinning noises. I was lucky enough to lose only 1 partition and could backup the rest. Now I'm hesitant about even sending this drive back to IBM, just to receive a refurbished one, which could be in worse condition. I think I'm gonna get a new drive (probably Western Digital) and use this one as a backup. There's no advantage to getting an IBM Deskstar, even if it's cheaper.. so just stay away.
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Summary: Very good performance, but died after a year...
Review: I bought one of these a year ago in Germany... I was very happy to have an IBM hard drive although they were made in Hungary... It was working well until a month ago when bad sectors started to corrupting my data... As I live in Argentina, IBM will not change the defective hard drive...
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Summary: Judging by the other reviews, I don't think this was a fluke
Review: I'm an IT professional specializing in data storage and I've been very impressed with IBMs storage products for several years now. Now, I'm sad to say, my own home PC's hard drive has bitten the dust as well. When I cracked open my almost 2-year-old Dell to peek inside, what did I find...? ...a 40GB IBM Deskstar! I hope it's a fluke, because I'm a firm believer in IBMs products - but the fact remains that the only HOME PC hard drive I've ever had crash came from Big Blue.
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Summary: First hard drive to ever crash on me
Review: I've had many computers and many drives, but this is the first hard drive I've had that just inexplicably crashed on me. I turned on my computer, it started making loud grinding noises, and goodbye data. After reading other reviews, it's obvious that I'm not the only one to experience this from an IBM drive. I'll never buy an IBM hard drive again.
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Summary: Known to crash
Review: IBM's Hard drives have been failing on customers, causing all of their data to be lost. Not good. My friend had his entire hard drive just fail on him the other day, it was an IBM. I would not reccommend their Hard Drives.
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Summary: Crashing
Review: IBM's Hard drives have been failing on customers, causing all of their data to be lost. Not good. My friend had his entire hard drive just fail on him the other day, it was an IBM. I would not reccommend their Hard Drives.
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Summary: No Problems
Review: Just to rebuff the other comments, I have had an IBM Drive for over 2 years, no problems.
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