Dead, now $87 Very good price - IBM Deskstar 120GXP 80 GB 7200RPM Hard Drive - $73.49 Shipped overnight at Dell.

[frankqfrank]

Found at Dell Software an Peripherals. Automatic free shipping.

Listed as $85.95 - 10% automatic - 5% code available at deals sites = $73.49 No Tax in Ohio so yay me.

This drive beat Barracuda IV's and Maxtor D740x on alot of tests. Here is storage review's article on this drive. It did very well.

I don't think this is a repost, there is an old thread mentioning this drive but the price is higher than I got. Newegg sells this drive for like $88 shipped and a few people on their reviews have had good things to say.

 

[cdub]

Make sure you stay in the "Home And Home Office" section to get the discounts... many people over at FW had problems when they searched for the drive and it came up in the Dell Business section. Use the navigation on the right to find the drive in the Home section.

I just bought onna these from Computer Central in Frisco... for $90! For $75 more, I could have a little RAID 1... hmm....

 

[SirChadwick]

nice price, but i'm still hesitant to purchase an IBM HD b/c of the horrible reputation.

 

[frankqfrank]

I have a 40 gig deskstar 60GXP and really like it, no bad sectors and its worked great. IBM is getting sued I think for the high failure rate of the 75 GXP's but I think since then their drives have improved.

 

[tallest1]

careful frank, I hear the 60GXP's fail too. I don't wanna get near IBM 'cause of the reputation. I'm doing Seagate for now.

 

[Darknight]

Yeah, dunno about IBM anymore.... Good price tho!

 

[frankqfrank]

I actually cancelled my order.

I guess this will be a good deal for some people so I'll leave it up. However, I read at storage review apparently from an IBM rep...

"the drive is intended to be on for no more than about 8 hours a day. If it were only used during that period and then shut down for the day, then it would be fine, but it definitely should NOT be used in a 24/7 role for those customers concerned with reliability."

It seems that to lessen the amount of failures, IBM is trying to get people to leave the drive on for a much shorter time.

Baracuda IV is only like $10 more or so.

 

[Cattlegod]

yeah, i have 2 of the Baracuda IV's on their way to my house in a few days for 200 bucks. i could save 50 bucks but i dont know about IBM drives, a little scary.

EDIT:: just found out the dead deal is now alive for the segate 80 gig baracuda's

i just ordered 2 for 174 bucks shipped overnight.!!

i'm on the phone with Dell right now and am cancelling my 205 dollar order.

 

[rimshaker]

Oh well, i already bought the western digital 800JB the other week. Heh, no regrets here

 

[TNTrulez]

If you get on this deal. . make sure you store disposable data on the deathstar. It might fail at any moment. Also, Dell oem only have one year warranty so if your hard drive fails after that you're out of luck.

 

[frankqfrank]

Can anyone confirm Dell's one year warranty?

I always thought the manufacturer's warranty long outlasted that. At least with IBM, seagate, Maxtor et cetera.

 

[sleefer]

I have a couple of these and have been running them pretty hard for quite a while now with no problems at all. The main thing is keep the drive cool, esp. the logic board. I read somewhere that it's what goes out from the heat. I thought that most of the problems were with the three platter drives. Anyway, I may have heard wrong on that. One things for sure, IBM will take care of it if you have a problem.

 

[zodder]

I know the 80GB Seagate I bought from Dell showed on Seagate's site as having a 3 year warranty.

 

[MightyMan]

Wouldn't touch newer EIDE IBM drives with a 10-ft cattle prod.....

Besides, didn't IBM announce that they were selling their unprofitable disk-drive business?

where's the warranty gonna be?
MM

 

[frankqfrank]

Yes they are selling it. It is IBM though, I wouldn't worry about losing a warranty.

 

[adaddo]

Anyone aware as to whether these carry a 3yr factory warranty...or Dell's standard One year?
hmmmmmm...?

 

[MDesigner]

Avoid IBM drives like the plague. I've owned TWO, and my cousins have gone through a few, and we've had problems with nearly all of them. If you want good quality, quiet drives, get Maxtor.

 

[GnatGoSplat]

My Maxtor 80GB fluid bearing drive that I bought on a deal here went bad in a week. Started having trouble booting, and XP CHKDSK found bad sectors. Every day there were more bad sectors. It made scary grinding R/W noises too. I RMA'd it, but my new drive makes the same noises. I don't trust Maxtor. At the same time, my dad had a 60GB Maxtor that just died. Logic board on it died, so he couldn't even access his data.

My old drive was a 40GB 120GXP and I didn't have an ounce of trouble with it, and it was way quieter and seemed faster than my Maxtor fluid bearing drive. I haven't seen hardly ANY reports of people needing to RMA 120GXP drives, I don't know if it's because no one is buying them or IBM finally got it right. At any rate, I don't trust Maxtor anymore so I may replace it with this 120GXP.

 

[alphatarget1]

i have used 5 IBM drives now, now im planning to sell 2 of them and 1 is still running on my sister's computer while the other 2 is screwed up.

the IBM drives I have get very hot... IBM drives do have a bad reputation and i don't trust them

 

[icepop]

MAXTOR?!?! I'll never buy that junk again. I got the 60 GB 7200 RPm drive, it is horrible. First i started losing so many files on it. JPG's have data errors in the picture where it looks like half the image lost 90% of its contrast. In win2k, chkdsk finds hundreds of orphaned files (poor little guys). I ran the PowerMax software and the drive failed the Read/Write buffer. I did a warranty exchange and the drive I received is brand new...this made me happy. However, Win2k and my Promise RAID controller only see 30 GB of the 60 GB drive. It is the correct model number. I tried using the PowerMax software to recover the other half o the drive, but no dice. I'll give their "tech" support a call tomorrow. Their website is down for doing warranty exhanges because they are moving warehouses....what fun!

I do have a 75 GB 7200 RPM IBM drive. I believe it is the 60XP line. It is very fast and no data errors at all. However, it makes a weird clicking sound every once in a while during heave usage. I got the new 120 GB Western Digital and so far, it is great.

I'd stay away from IBM and Seagate EIDE drives now because they are not reliable at all. At work, my lan admin has tossed numerous drives from both companies. Western Digital seems to be holding up for now...

Tim

 

[IronCityPA]

I have had great luck with Maxtor. I've owned 4 of them, including a new 40 gig 740X series, and only 1 ever went bad (2.6 gig) and the rma'd one has been going STRONG for around 5 years now. I have had 1 WD and it went bad (out of warranty) and also 1 2 gig seagate which still runs fine. Anyhow.. everyone has different luck with drives. I love my Maxtors. RMA service can't be beat either. Also, my friend is a PC tech and deals with hard drives and them dying alot. He says WD and Seagate quality control sucks anymore... used to be good but now they aren't and that those drives have been dying often, so I figure I have had good luck with Maxtor, why buy crap that my friend deals with all day? As for IBM, the whole industry knows about their crap. Now...... if I could get an 80 gig hdd other than the IBM drive for $75 bucks now that's a deal... I'd take any of them just because it's so cheap.

 

[SpideyCU]

"I don't trust this brand, I don't trust that brand."

For cryin' out loud everyone has a different experience with hard drives, you all treat them differently and you all have different luck in what you get. For every person to decry one brand, there will be more to complain about whatever he/she endorses. I've not had a drive die on me in the last 5 years, yet my friend had both his 75GXP and his Maxtor drive both die within the past few years. Take that for what you will.

"I hear this fails" and "I hear that fails" - I personally would love to see comparison of failure % in one over the other. 75GXPs were notorious for this (even though mine's been going fine for 2 years), but the mysterious complaints about the 60 and 120 GXP's seem more baseless than anything else. One person will say "Oh, my 60GXP failed on me!" and others will reply "I knew it! IBM drives still suck! Stay away, they're completely unreliable!", and so the rumor gets started. Witch hunt, anyone?

Oh, and concerning the number of hours per day that IBM recommends you use the drive - nearly all companies follow the same guideline for their IDE drives, IBM is the only one to publicly announce it. I'm not pro-IBM for drives or anything (my 75GXP serves as a backup drive, just in case - my RAID is set up with Maxtors to be safe), but this is getting ridiculous.

At the very least could we try to keep these back and forths of which company sucks more in something like General Hardware? Every time a hard drive deal comes up, these comments come with it...

 

[GnatGoSplat]

Is this deal still good?
Otherwise, old posts coming back from the dead are NOT hot in my book.

 

[clarkmo]

Originally posted by: icepop
MAXTOR?!?! I'll never buy that junk again. I got the 60 GB 7200 RPm drive, it is horrible. First i started losing so many files on it. JPG's have data errors in the picture where it looks like half the image lost 90% of its contrast. In win2k, chkdsk finds hundreds of orphaned files (poor little guys). I ran the PowerMax software and the drive failed the Read/Write buffer. I did a warranty exchange and the drive I received is brand new...this made me happy. However, Win2k and my Promise RAID controller only see 30 GB of the 60 GB drive. It is the correct model number. I tried using the PowerMax software to recover the other half o the drive, but no dice. I'll give their "tech" support a call tomorrow. Their website is down for doing warranty exhanges because they are moving warehouses....what fun!

I do have a 75 GB 7200 RPM IBM drive. I believe it is the 60XP line. It is very fast and no data errors at all. However, it makes a weird clicking sound every once in a while during heave usage. I got the new 120 GB Western Digital and so far, it is great.

I'd stay away from IBM and Seagate EIDE drives now because they are not reliable at all. At work, my lan admin has tossed numerous drives from both companies. Western Digital seems to be holding up for now...

Tim

Check the settings on the drive. It ships in some kind of compatibilty mode. Move the plastic jumper to the correct settings. Yep, it took me a while to figure this out too.

 

[maverick24]

nice price - lower than $1 per Gig - but IBM!! - I'm staying away....till they get their act together.