On Sunday 19 May 2002 02:51 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > 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.
Most of those links (and others) refer to IBM HDD's over 40GB havin problems. I just recently had a 10 month old, IBM 30GB 7200rpm ata/100 2mb drive fail. My Linux drive ;( Mechanical problem. The drive was used 24/7, but after being shutdown for a week while I was out'a town, it wouldn't spin up when I booted the system. System wouldn't even boot with that drive connected. Fortunately I had most of the stuff I needed from that drive backed up to CD's. I replaced it with a Maxtor 40GB. OTOH, my Windoze drive is a several years old IBM 7200rpm, ata/66 13.6GB. Never has a problem ..... yet ;) -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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