75GXP just Died today ...

[MortaniuS]

IBM = the suck

When i built my kt7-raid system i went through 4 of thr gxp75. After that i sinced switched to WD's. No problems since and i have trasferred them through like 6 system upgrades/

 

[Curley]

Wow!! 4 drives, I really feel fortunate to not have but one out of 37 go bad. I'd like to try a Western Digital 80GB Special Edition with the 8MB cache!!!

 

[Yobbo]

Bah humbug.

All it needs is love...or some cooling.

Main HDD been running prob closer to 24x7 than 8hours a day and it hasn't died in 2 years....but it is a replacement itself.

Its predecessor died (I didnt cool it in any way, it was sandwiched between 2 other drivers...bad for it

Anyway, I got this thing in like 5 days when I sent it out 2 years ago or so

 

[Curley]

Yeah, I totally agree that additional cooling, (Hard Drive Cooler) is recommended for "any" 7200RPM hard drive. As I stated before, I always use a hard drive cooler on all the hard drives I install. That may be IBMs problem, heat.