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Summary: IBM DeskStar 75 GB EIDE Hard Drive
Review: Absolutely no problems with this drive.
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Summary: Too risky right now...
Review: Do yourself a favor and run a Google search on "IBM Deskstar failure" or "crashing" and you'll turn up a bunch of articles and newsgroup discussions. Mine lasted 9 months and then crashed (right after I did a backup to it) out of the blue. Dead. Zippo. Nada. The return process at IBM could be better, but I am weary of getting another Deskstar that might fail the same way again. Seagate or Maxtor (just bought Quantum) are probably safer bets for now.
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Summary: Class action -- http://www.sheller.com/ibmclassaction.htm
Review: GET THESE IBM DESKSTAR DRIVES OUT OF YOUR MACHINES AT ALL COSTS !!!
For those of you who own Deskstar Hard Drives from IBM ...drives are failing by the tens of thousands all over the world, sometimes 2 at a time. People are whining about it all over the message boards. These may be the worst hard drives ever made. On warranty, IBM just sends another unreliable, defective drive, and usually the replacement looks used and abused. Often the replacements don't even last for a few days, so it is not even worthwhile returning them on warranty. I suppose all we'll get from the class action lawsuit is a discount on another IBM drive, which you couldn't pay me to take. They are NOT standing behind this failed product. In fact, they continue to sell them !!!!
I have 6 of these in my machines (mostly 60 GB). WHY ME ??
Don Brink
An IBM VICTIM.
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Summary: Very poor
Review: I am an IBM hard drive victim. After just 7 months. Out of the box I had a loud whirr. But it worked so no more of that...Just piled loads of important data on it. Then.....Clunking harddrive, although not very frequent. Then eventually corrupted files, crashes on any surfice test. And now fails to load. New Maxtor goes strong for more than 2 years.
NEVER buy IBM. Not one. Bad news.
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Summary: This Drive Will Fail On You
Review: I am blown away that so many others have had the exact expierence I have had with this drive. I was very excited to purchase it when I built a new system about a year ago. My motherboard was one of the first to support ATA100 and I paid up for the drive. Easy to install and no problems for a solid 3 months. Then I noticed when running outlook that the drive would run and make a scratching sound making it impossible to work. This scratch and run would last up to 15 minutes where you would basically be completely locked off your computer. This only happened occassionally though and I dealt with it. As of today, I tried reformatting the drive 3 times and the scratching happens 50+ times per 8 hour day. Don't buy this drive even on clearance!
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Summary: No problems for me
Review: I don't know why the prior reviewers had problems with this drive. I have had one in my PowerMac (running off a Sonnet ATA/66 card) for over 9 months and have had 0 problems. I got it to replace a pair of Maxtor's that jsut weren't up to snuff for video editng (Final Cut Pro). I've never had an error or dropped frame due to this drive.
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Summary: Not a single problem
Review: I don't understand all the problems people are having with this drive. I purchased one in Dec. 2000 and have had it running 24x7 since and it is working perfectly. Maybe I just got lucky, I don't know but at this price I will buy more.
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Summary: High Failure Rate - Do Not Buy!
Review: I had my IBM Deskstar running for about 3 months before it failed. Many different models of the IBM Deskstar IDE Drives have had a very high rate of failure. They are even being sued for it. (...) Even worse, just try to return an IBM drive. You have to first do a drive fitness test, then get an RMA, and then package it ONLY with foam packaging and then pay for it to be sent to IBM and maybe in 2-3 weeks you will receive a replacement drive, which could be the same defective model. Avoid the Deskstar IBM drives at all cost until they get their reliability problems sorted out.
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Summary: Very poor
Review: I have been running a Deskstar 75 GXP 60gb around the clock for almost 1? years now but a while back it started sounding kinda weird. It's a loud whining and scrapy sound with some faint clicking. I thought to myself that the drive was going to be dead in a matter of days but what do you know, it's kept running perfectly, without any data loss or bad sectors. For 6 months now, the drive has been running fine. Amazing. The actual problem tho is that since my computer is running some servers it has to be online all night, and it's just besides my bed, so now i'm kind of just hoping for the drive to crash so i have a reason to get a new one. Maybe then I can get a good nights sleep.
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Summary: I have trouble sleeping at night....
Review: I have been running a Deskstar 75 GXP 60gb around the clock for almost 1½ years now but a while back it started sounding kinda weird. It's a loud whining and scrapy sound with some faint clicking. I thought to myself that the drive was going to be dead in a matter of days but what do you know, it's kept running perfectly, without any data loss or bad sectors. For 6 months now, the drive has been running fine. Amazing. The actual problem tho is that since my computer is running some servers it has to be online all night, and it's just besides my bed, so now i'm kind of just hoping for the drive to crash so i have a reason to get a new one. Maybe then I can get a good nights sleep.
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