My another IBM Deskstar looks like dying

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Today the drive start to make all those clicks clicks clicks are I finished capture some clips in Final Cut Pro....



And then the drive keeps spinning down and up.....and then freezes the entire system.



Well...time to ditch this one last IBM drive in my life......



If I am a buying a new PowerMac in the future I will tell the retailer that if they ship with IBM drive I will force them to replace it with other brands...
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  • Reply 1 of 22
    What series? 75GXP again or a newer one?
  • Reply 2 of 22
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    [quote]Originally posted by L'ermite:

    <strong>What series? 75GXP again or a newer one?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    75 GXP. I have two of this



    The first one died last month. Died at 1 year. This one is 7 months old and is dying
  • Reply 3 of 22
    eskimoeskimo Posts: 474member
    I've been lucky that my Deathstar 75GXP has held up so far. But i'm contemplating the purchase of a new hard drive as a preemptive move against it. From polls on storagereview it seems that roughly 50% of 75GXPs have been reported to have failed. Of course this number is inflated as most people who have functioning deathstar's won't go looking for that poll.



    You might be able to join in the class action law suit against IBM if that interests you Leonis. The new 120GXP series looks sort of tempthing though.
  • Reply 4 of 22
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    Today all my IBM Deathstar 75GXP offically been put into coffin.



    First one - Died @ age of 1 year 2 months

    Second one - Died @ age of 5 months



    Long live Seagate!
  • Reply 5 of 22
    synsyn Posts: 329member
    Well my 75GXP is going to be a year old in a few months... Has served me right uptil now, but it does get in that click... click... click... click... mode now and then.



    Mine had a 3 year warranty, will they take it back without it having failed?
  • Reply 6 of 22
    Well...the 10-gig IBM hard drives used in Apple's portables also have a major issue: a terrible whining noise. I couldn't stand the one in my 2000 iBook, so I got a dual-USB iBook, which is starting to make the noise too. Luckilly they're finally going to replace it...
  • Reply 7 of 22
    I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I've had my Deathstar for over a year without problems, but I've heard a lot of anecdotal evidence of problems with these drives.
  • Reply 8 of 22
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    [quote]Originally posted by trick fall:

    <strong>I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I've had my Deathstar for over a year without problems, but I've heard a lot of anecdotal evidence of problems with these drives.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    So the problems are coming soon



    Seriously.....it never hurts to do backup....
  • Reply 9 of 22
    information on the class action lawsuit is available at: <a href="http://www.sheller.com/ibmclassaction.htm"; target="_blank">http://www.sheller.com/ibmclassaction.htm</a>;
  • Reply 10 of 22
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    Don't know if Canadian can join this lawsuit.....
  • Reply 11 of 22
    powerdocpowerdoc Posts: 8,123member
    [quote]Originally posted by trick fall:

    <strong>I'm keeping my fingers crossed. I've had my Deathstar for over a year without problems, but I've heard a lot of anecdotal evidence of problems with these drives.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Me too.

    My retailer told me that the SCSI drive where more resistant, i put one for my server where there is all my criticals data. Patient's folder.
  • Reply 12 of 22
    buffbuff Posts: 55member
    My deskstar has also died....

    I don't suppose anyone has sucessfully managed to mount one of these damaged drives?



    <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=10&t=001219#000007"; target="_blank">MY IBM DESKSTAR POST</a>
  • Reply 13 of 22
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    Love live Seagate!!!!!!!!
  • Reply 14 of 22
    I thought of buying a Deskstar with my PC a while back. I think it was too expensive or something, so I got a Seagate. Of course, I did get burned with a decade-old CorBit drive a while back. I recommend against using those.
  • Reply 15 of 22
    buffbuff Posts: 55member
    [quote]Originally posted by Mac The Fork:

    <strong> I think it was too expensive or something, so I got a Seagate. </strong><hr></blockquote>



    without going into too much detail, which drive company is recommended? I've heard mixed feedback about seagate.

    <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 16 of 22
    eskimoeskimo Posts: 474member
    [quote]Originally posted by Buff:

    <strong>



    without going into too much detail, which drive company is recommended? I've heard mixed feedback about seagate.

    <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>



    I think you'll hear mixed feedback about almost every company. I've never had a problem with Maxtor's but I've only owned 2 of them so your milage may vary. One advantage the current Seagate Baracudda IV's have right now over other 7200rpm drives is they are near silent and produce little heat at the expense of being slightly slower.
  • Reply 17 of 22
    To tell you the truth, I don't know. I can only really speak about drive manufacturers that were good a long time ago.



    - The only drive I have ever had a definite mechanical failure on is the ancient Cor-Bit.



    - Other drives that have failed for reasons unbeknown to me (and possibly from software failure) were from Western Digital.



    - I have an eleven-year-old Quantum that hasn't failed yet. I also have a nine-year-old Connor that's still good. Both companies are now owned by Maxtor, and I don't know anything about that.



    Oh, and I also have a Seagate that's a few months shy of twelve. That also seems to work.



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  • Reply 18 of 22
    buffbuff Posts: 55member
    Thanks for the advice!

    I really can't believe I'm back to square one, researching bloody hard drives!! it's mind numbing! I just hope my deskstar will give me some data after it's overnight freeze <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />



    This time I think i'll spend a little more (for peace of mind).

    :cool:
  • Reply 19 of 22
    alcimedesalcimedes Posts: 5,486member
    for what it's worth, i've had good luck with Maxtor drives. I've had western digital ones die on me, and now IBM. the only problems i ever had with a Maxtor were related to is transferring things to slowly, but they were really easy to deal with, and replaced it no problem. i'd recommend them again.



    -alcimedes
  • Reply 20 of 22
    leonisleonis Posts: 3,427member
    Every company's hard drives do have problems. IBM's failure rate is the highest in the whole market.
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