IBM 60GXP Poll

[MrTux]

Alright, I've been hearing a lot of bad things about IBM's hard drives lately. I've got a 60gb 60GXP (I've had it for 11 months) and I was wondering how many of you that had one have had it die on you. This is kind of a survey to see what kind of percentage of the drives seem to fail. Thanks for participating

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[sean2002]

I had mine for about 6 months before it got hundreds of bad sectors

 

[Xponential]

I've had one of the 40GB 60GXP models for 9 months now and not a single problem yet (*knocks on wood*).

 

[johndoe52]

<< I've had one of the 40GB 60GXP models for 9 months now and not a single problem yet (*knocks on wood*). >>



ditto

 

[sgopal2]

I had mine for about 6 months. I just sent it back to IBM last week for RMA.

I first started noticing problems with it after about 2 months....BTW these problems were NOT 'detected' by the IBM Drive fitness program

 

[sparks]

I think that there are still significantly more good 60gxps than bad ones. Though the failure rate may be higher than the norm, there should be more people with good 60gxps.

 

[Trader05]

Have my 60gb 60gxp running for the last 6-7 months great without a cooler.

 

[PeteyPete]

First one: Dead on Arrival

Second: Died after three months (Probably a result of my OC fanaticism)

Third: Running strong (w/o OC)

Fourth: New one sitting in my closet, i'm afraid to put put it in

 

[WheelsCSM]

I have had a 30GB for about a year and a half now and it still works great. I had two friends buy 30GB Maxtors at the same time, and both of them only lasted about 6 months - go figure.