--- "Hill, Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 15:49 -0700, Matthew Walker wrote: >>> Eek. An IBM Deathstar. >> >> Wow! I guess I'm not the only one... >> >> "Results 1 - 100 of about 325,000 English pages for IBM >> Deathstar." >> >> This looks bad. Anyway, knowing that I should be using the >> keyword "deathstar" when searching is helpful. Thanks > > I RMA'd 3 of them before getting one that worked longer than a > couple weeks. There was even a class-action lawsuit about it, > if memory serves. Haven't bought IBM since.
I had a couple of those fail on me, too. The "deathstars" seem to have been a major reason why IBM quit making hard drives and sold that part of their business to Hitachi. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
