I've been happily using the same 160 GB drive SAMSUNG HM160HC in an X32 for some years now. I guess it was one of the early batches!? I should be backing up regularly, but also planning to replace it before it fails. Therefore following this thread with interest. It isn't making any funny noises, which is more than I can say for the CPU fan ....
A separate thread might be a discussion of SSD devices in older Thinkpads. I've tried a couple of different routes in the really old 701C, both failed, and am wondering if anybody has every got a SS device to work as the main hard drive of the 701C or similar Thinkpad. And of course I'm interested in the performance and longevity of an SSD device under XP in an X32. In article <[email protected]>, you wrote: >I've installed dozens of Samsung HM160HC drives, and while the early batches >were excellent, I've had quite a few failures with the more recent ones. No >issues with their SATA offerings. > >As for WD, I prefer the 250GB PATA to the 320GB, because I find it to be >quieter. > >As always, YMMV. > >Cheers, > >George > >-----Original Message----- >From: Ray Bay <[email protected]> >To: Thinkpad <[email protected]> >Sent: Wed, May 23, 2012 12:52 pm >Subject: [Thinkpad] Reliability Experience with IDE 2.5 hard Drives & Samsung` > > > > >As everyone with an older Thinkpad now knows, IDE drives are expensive to >come by... and reliability has become a question > > >Nearly all of the 12 vendors we use for our repair shops now *limit the >numbers* of Western Digital, Seagate, or Toshiba hard drives we can order. > >However, Samsung, Hitachi, and Fujitsu are reasonably plentiful... But we >see very high failure rates of these... though Fujitsu is not too >worrisome... just no large drive sizes. > >We are wondering what your experience has been with Samsun IDE 2.5 hard >drives... as our failure rate is very high. We wonder if it is damaging >done in shipment or if they just are not built as well. > >Hitachi, of course (under new company and management) claims all their >problems are resolved and they will last as long as Seagate, Western >Digital, and Toshiba. But the only Hitachi drives we find are all SATA as >nearly as we can tell. All the IDE drives are old technology with old >date codes... plentiful but nearly worthless. > >We would like to learn of your experience and recommendations on brands and >suppliers. > >If we have just been unlucky with Samsung, we will go for more of them. >They are plentiful and the prices are the lowest we have found... Still, >we have had a number of Samsung drives that lasted less than 30 days in a >client's Thinkpad. > > >RayBay >-- -- happy Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
