On March 18, 2004 03:53 pm, Katrina Kube wrote:On 18-Mar-04, at 11:22, Nick W wrote:On March 18, 2004 02:45 am, Katrina Kube wrote:I've had 5 (all Toshiba) croak in my iBook within 2 years, but I'm not
sure if the HD was the problem the entire time. I got a new logic
board
last July (freebie thanks to AppleCare) and this drive has lasted well
over a year now. So far it hasn't done any of the things the other 5
did. I just hope it lasts as long as the rest of this computer.
Sounds like your luck with them is the same as mine. The third one crapped out this morning, its 5 months and 3 days old. By the sound it was making before I removed it Id guess the bearings are scrooged.
Did yours go "clunk clunk bzzzzzzt tick tiiiiiiiick clunk clunk clunk" too?
A little bit, but rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr was more prevalent. Sounded like the
bearings were gone.
My last 2 did the clunking thing, but the first one buzzed and whined for over 3 months... Working in a library was out of the question at that point. :-(
Maybe I should try to talk them into replacing it with a different brand name. Im off to check my warranty. Pretty bad, this was a replacement drive for a drive that only lasted 3 weeks.
There's lots to choose from, Toshiba is just the cheaper supplier from
what I've seen. Hopefully the people you're dealing with will side with
you otherwise there isn't much of a point in having it replaced. Let's
hope this one lasts...
Luckily memory express is pretty good. They swapped me for a 7200RPM Hitachi.
Cost me a few bucks but its worth the peace of mind, and the added speed
never hurts [The Toshiba was 5400RPM]. So Im gonna give MemEx a thumbs-up for
thier customer service. Unfortunately I have to say Toshiba's quality control
for thier 2.5"HDDs sucks really bad. The tech found bad sectors at the end of
the drive, the last one I had siezed completely. The BIOS wouldnt detect it
so I suspect the controller failed.
I had the same problems with mine. It seemed like there would be a new problem every week or so, then when it ran out of things to screw up, it just croaked. I hope that extra $100 made the difference. I'll be looking for a new drive in a few weeks.
Thanks for your input.
Anytime. :-)
On 18-Mar-04, at 02:15, Nick W wrote:Out of curiosity, has anyone on the list had bad experience with
toshiba 2.5"
drives? Ive had 2 [nearly brand new] fail on me so far in under a
year, and a
third one [6 mos old] nearly bit it this morning, oddly enough its
working in
linux but XP chokes on it. The problem originally surfaced in linux
but after
powering down for a bit I managed to get it mounted [heat issue?] and
got my
sensitive data off of it just in case. Im just wondering how much of
an issue
is heat with regards to hdds failing? I run this poor thing pretty
hard a
lot. :-s
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