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Summary: Great Drive Till it Died
Review: It seems that, like so many others, my 75GXP drive had to die. I bought 2 30GB drives 11 months ago and had them hooked up in a RAID-0 array. One day last week my computer started to hang and I would hear the tell-tale "3 scratches" sound, and knew that one of my drives was dead. I was actually able to back up all of the data I needed from my system and separated the drives and reformat. I quickly figured out which of the two drives was dead when I tried the format the second one and it did the scratching noise. So, now I'm going to have to try to RMA the thing and see how that goes. It's too bad, really, these are great drives when they are working!
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Summary: This drive WILL CRASH
Review: Just like most of the people here, I have been burned by IBM's DeskStar drives - I had two of them crash on me, and one was less than a year old. You are taking a massive risk if you purchase an IBM drive.
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Summary: Beware of reliability.
Review: My 75GB Model DTLA307075 IBM hard drive crashed after 4 months of use. The head mechanism was broken and I had to send my hard drive away to have the data recovered costing thousands. Other people that I know have had great results with the exact same type of drive.
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Summary: Never IBM HD!!!
Review: One year b4, I bought [another hd], it is quiet and fast, I was happy with it! After a few months I heard a lot of negative new about this series of HD, I don't believe it, because my drive still works fine... I used to treat it very well; I used a big fan to keep it very cool.
After one yr., I tried to do surface scan with it, a few scratching sounds came out, 8K bad sectors. I have some idea what's wrong... so backup all my data immediately.
Then I tried to do low level format, but the result is 65MB bad sectors found!!! I also tried to use IBM's HD tools to fix... still fail...
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Summary: High failure rate
Review: The Deskstar 75GXP I bought failed with a head crash after three months. Apparently, these drives have an abnormally high failure rate. There's plenty of other inexpensive 80G hard drives around. Avoid this one.
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Summary: 4 Desktar drives, 5 returns with in 3 months!
Review: This is a horrible hard drive! It may claim one of the fastest access times at 8.5 but you pay for it in quality. I have had four friends purchase these Deskstar models and have had non stop problems with them. It's a real hassle to go through their return policy. Do you really want to risk having all your data on this one drive completely lost? Changes are that is whats most to happen if you purchase this drive. ONCE AGAIN, DON'T GET ANY DESKSTAR MODELS, THEY ARE HORRIBLE!!!
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Summary: Click of death
Review: Two weeks out of the box, the drive starting making clicking/scratching noises... diagnostic programs say it fails surface scan... looks like a major mechanism error... I just hope I can get IBM to replace it...
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Summary: Mine Failed As Well
Review: Waiting for IBM to send me a another. I'd avoid this drive at all costs.
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Summary: This is EXTREMELY funny!
Review: Want a good laugh? Read my very positive review of this hard drive from late December 2001. Guess what...one of my Deskstars just exploded. Yee hah. Western Digital, here I come.... - Roulette
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Summary: This is EXTREMELY funny!
Review: Want a good laugh? Read my very positive review of this hard drive from late December 2001. Guess what...one of my Deskstars just exploded. Yee hah. Western Digital, here I come.... - Roulette
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