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Squibbly

are western digital hard drives reliable, i know most drives are more
reliable than ibm and generics just want to see if they are reliable
 
The only drives I've had good luck with are Seagates. The one I'm using now
and one I just pulled recently, were installed in 1998.

I've had 3 wd drives and 2 of them showed problems after 1.5 years. The
third one, I just bought and installed.

The first wd drive I had, I moved 'my documents', etc. to it and one day,
winblows could not boot into administrator because the files it needed were
corrupt.

The second drive started to get smart errors from the bios, which were
actually 'drive self test' errors. When I ran the wd utility, I got a 'too
many bad sectors' error.

Tired of this, I bought SpinRite and ran it on all 3 drives. No errors, no
problems, etc. The only drawback is SpinRite takes about 12 hours per drive
to do its work.

-g
 
If using a WD make sure it's a JB version not a BB, faster and pretty
relyable IMO.

Seagate are an OK HDD, I use many of them.

Maxtor and Quantum (same thing) suck, to be polite, I'm still waiting
for a warranty return of a SATA Maxtor now 3 months and counting.

IBM AKA the deathstar model really suck.

Fujitsu, are doubtfull at best.

Whatever you use make sure it has a 5 year warranty.
 
digisol optusnet.com-dot-au.no-spam.invalid (digisol) wrote:

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IBM AKA the deathstar model really suck.
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I saw an IBM Deskstar 120GXP 60GB HDD dirt cheap. Bought one and
posted about it on Jun 7 2002 because I thought it was a really
good deal. I was promptly schooled by some about how really bad
they are, including predictions of doom and destruction. Others
called the criticism bias.

It continues to run perfectly/quietly since then, at least 16
hours every day, while being moved around and moved between
computer cases.
 
Squibbly said:
this spinrite, does it work on click of death thingy?

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If you mean 'click of death' on Zip diskettes, yes. www.grc.com has a
lot if info on zip drives. If you mean, as in hard drives 'clicking' when
dying, it cannot fix a broken drive, but it will give you a chance to
recover lost data while the drive still functions.
Mike.
 
digisol optusnet.com-dot-au.no-spam.invalid (digisol) wrote:
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John Doe said:
I saw an IBM Deskstar 120GXP 60GB HDD dirt cheap. Bought one and
posted about it on Jun 7 2002 because I thought it was a really
good deal. I was promptly schooled by some about how really bad
they are, including predictions of doom and destruction. Others
called the criticism bias.

It continues to run perfectly/quietly since then, at least 16
hours every day, while being moved around and moved between
computer cases.
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John:
That's because the *real* IBM "Death Stars" as I recall was the 75GXP series
of drives. The 120GXP drive performed admirably (and still does judging from
your comment).
Anna
 
The only drives I've had good luck with are Seagates. The one I'm using now
and one I just pulled recently, were installed in 1998.

I've had 3 wd drives and 2 of them showed problems after 1.5 years. The
third one, I just bought and installed.

The first wd drive I had, I moved 'my documents', etc. to it and one day,
winblows could not boot into administrator because the files it needed were
corrupt.

The second drive started to get smart errors from the bios, which were
actually 'drive self test' errors. When I ran the wd utility, I got a 'too
many bad sectors' error.

Tired of this, I bought SpinRite and ran it on all 3 drives. No errors, no
problems, etc. The only drawback is SpinRite takes about 12 hours per drive
to do its work.

-g
 
Every once in a while, posted messages do not show up on the earthlink
server. When I checked several days later, it was not there . . .

-g
 
I said:
I saw an IBM Deskstar 120GXP 60GB HDD dirt cheap
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It failed yesterday. I heard some noises in the case in the last few
days but did not realize it was the disk.

Oh well. I have to buy a replacement disk, so this is a good
opportunity to try my own advice about the 10,000 RPM hard disk drives,
for gaming. I'm confident they will significantly improve gaming
performance. The reviews on NewEgg suggest so. I definitely do not need
a gob of hard disk space, but the current 10 GB backup disk I am using
is pretty small. Maybe I will go for the 74 GB model, but my mainboard
supports only the SATA 150 transfer rate.

I'm also considering two less expensive SATA hard disk drives in a RAID
configuration, my mainboard has a built-in SATA controller, wouldn't
that greatly increase hard disk speed?
 
I use them ofthen since I build computers and repair them.

I find them as good as seagates and maxtors, but the really good ones
are Quantums.

Watch for the speed. If you are getting a new one, better a 7200rpm
than 5400 rpm if you are going to use XP OS.
 
John is 100% correct the GXP versions were the bad ones but havin
given the company such a bad name no logical thinking man/woman woul
buy another

They were lucky to last 6 months, never would they last a day longe
than the 12 mth warranty, then they would die very quickly, IE fro
noise to system warning that hard drive C: failure was only severa
hours

FYI, I owned 2, both died within a year, the second was th
replacement for the first, I switched over to the WD-JBversion drive
which are still a good buy
 
If you build them you would know that both Quantum and Maxtor have
long since joined forces and are the same thing, made in the same
factory.

Bummer eh.

WD and Seagate are the only drives worth buying.
 
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