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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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Summary: Good, fast, and reliable.
Review: I have four of these hard drives - all are the same 75 GXP model. They were purchased over the course of about 12-18 months. One of them has been running 24 hours a day for about 18 months. Another has seen duty about half that time, and the two others have been used fairly lightly. I have never had a single problem with any of the drives. This drive is extremely fast. In fact, the original reason I bought it was because its read/write speeds marauded the competition. Lately, it has been slightly superceded in performance by some other drives (such as the new Western Digital 100/120 GB 7200 RPM drives), but it's amazing that it's still at or near the head of the pack despite the fact that the drive has been around for so long (18-24 months.) I would highly recommend this drive, especially in light of the recent price drops. - Roulette
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Summary: Unfortunately, I am now a believer
Review: I have had a 30GB 75GXP for a little over a year now. The performance was better than anything I had seen when I first installed it, and it worked great...until last week. I too had read the reviews of a great proportion of 75GXP drives failing and thought it must be a fluke thing since mine was working without a hitch. But like others, I have now heard the distinctive 4 scratch precursor to drive death. First it wouldn't load up my outlook profile, and then it proceeded to not load my Win2000 profile, and lastly it failed to boot at all. The only thing left to do is to RMA the drive back to IBM and hope for a drive that works.
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Summary: I tend to agree with these other reviews
Review: I just had 75 GB 75GXP drive fail after 6 months. Don't get me wrong, the drive is a great performer, and if you are lucky you will never have any problems with it. However, after I started hearing from so many people that have experienced a very similar failure, I did start to wonder if there is indeed a defect in the drives design. The problem I experienced was the same "click of death" that I have seen many other users complain of. The drive basically clicks and makes three or 4 stratching noises, and it my case it would then not load my profile in windows 2000 becuase that is where the bad sector was located. In my case however I was lucky and was able to transfer almost all my data off the drive without losing it. However, I have heard others have not been so lucky. IBM says these drives are fine. However I am quite sure that they know this is not true. Large companies will only admit to problems when they absolutely have to. My advice on this drive would be to purchase it only if you are willing to make frequent backups to protect your data.
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Summary: IBM 75 GB hard disk reveiw
Review: I'll make this reveiw plain and simple- this hard disk is fast, large, and efficiant. It is highly reliable, and seek time is very fast. However, its raw size of a wopping 75 Gigabytes makes it incredible, as well as making it the second largest upgrade on the market. Overall, this fast, large, reliable, and efficiant hard disk is a wonderful upgrade to any computer!
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Summary: IBM DeskStar
Review: I've done at least 35 H-Drive swaps.I got this DeskStar and it was bad right out of the Static bag.Here's the scoop,I get it put on my anti-static wrist-stap and install it.Put in the floppy
and NOTHING I mean dead not even a hum,anyway change cable with one I know is good ,still nothing ,put a meter on the power plug and I got power.Recheck jumpers,power ,cable NOTHING.Call IBM tech support and get someone who really does not know hard drives.After 50 minutes of talking to her and her supervisor,they decide I got a bad drive,She couldn't believe it say's it's very,very RARE.Now the good part she say's AT LEAST 14 DAY'S after they receive it, AND they could send me a rebuild as a replacement.YEA right I bought this brand new it's 1 hour after ups gets my signature and they're going to send me a rebuild!!I returned it to place of purchase and got credit ,ordered a Western fired right up.IBM is junk!!
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Summary: Had 2 fail allready!
Review: I've had this drive for a few months and it failed. Then the replacement came from IBM and it failed in a few days!! I went online and found at least 7 articles about how faultiy this drive is (go onto google or any search engine and type in '75GXP Failure' and you'll see what I mean). The worst part is IBM refuses to acnowledge the problem and fix it, so you can never rely on this drive or the replacement drive they send you. I highly recommend looking into a different brand, this is a bad investment and your data will never be safe on it.
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Summary: HUGE AMOUNT OF STORAGE
Review: IBM's Deskstar 75GXP line offers the fastest IDE hard drives available right now and the 75GB version is second biggest IDE hard drive available on the market right now.
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Summary: Beware of reliability.
Review: If you do not value your data - buy this drive. My drive made this odd sound like a pinging car.... and then it started to make this scrathing sound like it was playing an LP. I finally took it back and got my money back & bought a Seagate Barracuda IV! IBM should NOT be making hard drives!
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Summary: JUNK
Review: If you do not value your data - buy this drive. My drive made this odd sound like a pinging car.... and then it started to make this scrathing sound like it was playing an LP. I finally took it back and got my money back & bought a Seagate Barracuda IV! IBM should NOT be making hard drives!
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