IBM hard drives.

[Capmaster]

Bigfoot! That was the drive I was thinking of. I don't how many Compaq RMA forms I filled out the year they decided to use that drive!

We used to have fun turning the drives on its axes while it was running. It was like an antigrav unit in your hands. That as about all the drives were good for.

A homemade gyroscope. If I remember they used to dim the lights (almost) when they spooled up.

[flaninacupboard]

Haha, cool. My amplifier makes the lights dim when i turn it on......

[pyscrow]

15 years of using and building PC's, only ever had two drives fail on me, an IBM Deskstar 10gig, and an IBM Deskstar 40gig a couple of years later.

Maybe it was co-incidental, but I have not used an IBM drive since the second one died.

I have also had problems with some older BIOS's being able to recognise the deskstars.

[flaninacupboard]

My drive arrived today!

and i really mean my drive, it's the same

Has a little orange sticker "Servicable used part"

great, instills me with confidence......

[rkr1958]

I just saw this threat and don't know if it's drifted off of topic but anyway.

I have an IBM Deskstar 45-GB drive, mft Jun-2000 and purchased with a new Gateway in July 2000. I moved this drive over as my system drive when I built my new computer in October 2003. This drive died a horrible death on February 14, 2004. So in all it lasted some 3 1/2 years. However, while I did not lose any data the crashed cost a me a week or so in reloading the O/S, hardware drivers, Applications and patches. What a pain.

When I bought the drive I thought that I'd never need more than 45-GB. What a massive drive! I now have a total of 590-GB (120-GB WD, 250-GB WD, 160-GB Seagate ATA and 60-GB external firewire). I still have one internal 3 1/2' bay open and probably will added another harddrive in the next few months.

[thayne]

I'll never buy another IBM/Hitachi drive again. I used to love them because they are so fast, but they are unreliable as hell. I have lost 3 (out of the 4 I own) in the last year and all are under 2 years old.

I have Maxtor drives that run fine, but are so outdated I don't use them. They last forever....

[dat]

I had 2 quantum harddrives that lasted almost 10 years. Unfortunately, Quantum does not make harddrive anymore. Nowaday, I only use Seagate for EIDE and Western Digital Raptor.

[miksu]

Have one 40Gb Deskstar, 60-series, which is supposed to be better than preceding 75-series. So far working well, three years old almost, fast and quiet. Personally liked it so far

Have seen reports about failing GXP60's like one I have. Something to do with thermal expansion and GMR-heads. 60's have glass platters, Hitachi is using traditional Al nowadays.