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).
Therein may lie a problem. I love the Reg just as much as the next guy, but if you read too much Reg you can get depressed; it's a very cynically oriented publication. The last Mandrake article was evidence of that to me. Every company is going to have problems sooner or later. For a company with an aboveboard reputation in it's arena, such problems are even more subject to journalistic overblow than normal. There still need to be benchmarks and hard data correlated with what the journalists are saying, and more significantly, what the peeps here on the expert list are saying about their personal experiences. Asking the question here was a good step; the data provided here on this thread will give a context to the negative reports on IBM, IMO. > 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. Not really; that's sort of a mule blinder perspective. There are more companies out there; like Fujitsu and Hitachi. But not Samsung. ;) LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.8-26mdk Mandrake Linux 8.1 Enlightenment 0.16.5 Evolution 1.02 Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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