Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4393 mails)

["W.D.McKinney" <deem@xxxxxxx>]

I can attest to the IBM line personally. In my personal MP3 server I have :

hda: IC35L060AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive - 60 Gig
hdd: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive  - 30 Gig

On the home LAN client machines running a mix of W98 and W2000 I have 30 & 45 Gig IBM's.

In one batch I bought of 2 30g and 1 45G, they went bad in less than a month of use.
IBM has a good return policy and in 2 weeks they replaced them.

I suggest you return any bad ones for a replacement.

Nick Zentena <zentena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On November 3, 2001 02:09 pm, Nick Webb wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I've had bad luck over the years with hard drive failures.  In my
> > workstation alone I've had two drives go bad (one was actually recalled by
> > WDC), and the main drive in my present system (IBM 75GXP 30GB) is starting
> > to show bad sectors and making bad noises :(.  So this makes three drives
> > in about 4 years, not too bad, I guess.  Anyway I'm trying to figure out
> 
> 
>    Honestly that sounds terrible IMHO. One drive in four years is one thing. 
> Three in four would make me wonder. I had a drive go this spring [about the 
> same time 7.2 came out] It was built in early 1997.  Three to four years is 
> about the point I start to wonder when. Is your system  over  heating? Other 
> issues?
> 
> Nick