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[Glaucus]

Yup, it finally happened. My IBM 60GXP DeskStar 40GB (aka DeathStar) finally bit the dust! Ugh!!! When I bought this I was unaware of this drive's less then spectacular reliability. In fact, the reputation of these drives was so <sarcasim> good </sarcasim> that IBM sold off it's HD manucaturing division to Hitachi (why Hitachi bought it, I don't know, but I'm staying away from Hitachi drives as well). At least that's what I read yesterday from various different articles while searching for recovery tools. I also read that there's a class action lawsuite against IBM because of these crappy drives.

Anyway, lucky for me, the partition that I store all my data and files is mostly intact (and already mostly salvaged onto my new Western Digital 80GB drive). My OS partition is now swiss cheese and I haven't bothered checking the partition where I install my apps (without the registry, what's the point?). So for the next few days I'll be busy re-installing and re-tweaking my setup.

Oh joy of joys... Ugh! Sometimes I just hate computers (and yes, I did have somewhat recent backups, but I might as well just re-install, don't trust the backup software anyway).

- Mike

[Step]

Hmm, IBMs hard drives has almost always been good, there were one series that was less than stellar, and the resent stuff is about faulty harddrives that they knowingly shipped out anyway. My IBM drives have always performed like a charm so i will continue with Hitachi. However one manufacturer that i have had several problems with are Western Digital so i will never buy their crap again.

In the end i guess it is up to personal experiences. too bad about your problems tough.

[todi]

Well, it's a well known fact... search for 'deskstar problem' with your favourite search-engine.

My Deskstar 40GB didn't last for a year, so I won't buy any Deskstar ever again.

But to be fair: I had and have several other IBM HDs (non-Deskstars) running and those are quite perfect!

[Hooligan_DCS]

Four (4!) 40gb Desktars broken, all in about a years time from each other. Latest two weeks ago. Replaced to Samsung .. tired of always getting a new one exactly like the previous.

Hopefully IBM are sentenced in stopping all manufacturing which has even slightest to do with storing media.

[mikeymike]

Yep, I was a DeathStar victim too. 40GB disk. Dead in just over a year.

{bleep}s.

[amigean]

In mid-2001 I bought my self a 20GB IBM deathstar, which lasted for about 9 months.

It took IBM 2 months to send me a replacement. The replacement 'deathstar' had to be replaced too after another 6 months. That replacement (the replacement's replacement) is currently at (what is now) Hitachi's Support centre in the Netherlands, while I am still waiting for a replacement.

At present, I am seriously considering the possibility of not buying another IBM (or Hitachi) hard drive.

I rest my case.