Yes there is a big hard drive law suite against IBM also the 3 or more year
old IBM drives were usually made from NEC! They covered this story in
Maximum PC also ZDNET and various places.
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From: "Paul M Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
To: <slug@nks.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 25, 2002 11:56 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hard Drive brand question
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> Paul
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> From: jeremy bowers <jeremy@jeremybowers.com>
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Hard Drive brand question
>
> IBM should be out of the question. Recently, their hard drives have been
> exposed as having a ridiculous mean time between failure rate. They aren't
> even producing drives anymore -- any drive you buy now was built several
> months ago and has been rotting in a warehouse.
>
> IBM has recommended that no drive be left on more than 333 hours per
> month. That breaks down to like 11 hours per day. I'd think you want more
> than that kind of production out of a drive.
>
> Some of the horror stories? 40 out of 100 IBM 120GXP drives crash within 3
> months of purchase by a small ISP.
>
> Individual users of 40GXP drives getting less than 8 months of production,
> IBM claims the drive isn't under warranty, because the damage was caused
> by "excessive wear and tear" and under "extreme conditions." The user left
> their computer on for six consecutive months with only reboots bringing
> the system down occasionally. Doesn't sound "exessive" or "extreme" to me.
>
> Here's the site where the people with a class-action lawsuit are suing IBM
> now.
>
> http://www.sheller.com/ibmpress.htm
>
> Older IBM drives are still rock solid, but anything in the last year or
> two is suspect.
>
> I've got a Maxtor 40gb 7200 in my main computer, and it's been great. I
> also hear that Western Digital is putting out an acceptable product. A
> good friend had some misgivings about the Caviar series, but
> couldn't/wouldn't elaborate.
>
> --Jeremy
>
> --
> Pine:
> It's not the features,
> It's the fresh scent.
>
>
>
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