On 19 May 2002 03:16:00 -0400, Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 01:44, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > > Have you used any IBM drives made in the past year? Until about a year ago > > IBM drives were renowned for their reliability, and I used to recommend IBM > > to all my friends. Since then, they have suffered reliability problems, and > > the return rate for IBM drives has been high. There was even a class-action > > lawsuit launched against IBM last year, since so many people's drives failed > > (I think this was settled out of court). > > > > IBM have been first to develop and implement all sorts of new technologies, > > including glass platters and that 'pixie dust' stuff. It looks as if they're > > having major teething problems with these new technologies. > > > > There was some controversy a few weeks ago when IBM placed warnings on their > > new drives indicating that they shouldn't be used for more than eight hours > > per day. If that isn't an indication of poor reliability, then I don't know > > what is. > > > > With all these quality control problems, and IBM's recent financial woes, I > > am not surprised that they have decided to sell their hard drive unit to > > Hitachi. > > > > If you're wondering where I get all this stuff, it is The Register > > (http://www.theregister.co.uk). > > > > For me, IBM was a natural choice until this string of incidents. WD is out > > of the picture, since they don't correctly follow the ATA spec. That leaves > > Seagate and Maxtor. > > Ugh. This is not good at all. And it is true that my information is > slightly dated; the two IBM Deskstar's I have here are about a year > old. Where did you get this information? Any links? > > LX
I did a quick web search and found a few relevant pages: http://theregister.co.uk/content/53/24896.html http://theregister.co.uk/content/archive/22412.html http://news.com.com/2100-1001-866602.html?legacy=cnet&tag=lh http://www.viahardware.com/ibm120gxp.shtm In my last post I was writing from memory, so some of the details were not quite accurate. For example, IBM is only (!) selling 70% of its HDD business to Hitachi, and the new business will be a Hitachi-IBM joint venture. Also, the recommended maximum usage for the new IBM drives is on average 11 hours per day (not eight as I had previously mentioned). But the fact remains: if the drives are reliable, why would IBM feel the need to do this? No other manufacturer does. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "Have you learned nothing at all from DOS and Windows?" -- Linus Torvalds
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