Hard Drive Heads Up

[Ashcrow]

http://www.goroyalpc.com/product.asp...78HARDDRIVEIDE

80gig 72000 for about 85$ USD. It's one of the 120GXP's by IBM so it's nice ... though they 'recomend' you use it for 333 hours a month. I have a friend who has two of these and keeps them running all the time on a RAID configuration and hasn't had a problem yet. Not to bad.

Just got me one of those!

[pbharris]

arrgg!!! good price...

the swines run IIS

[Timothy_Miller]

72000!! WOW, now that's one fast little baby!! ;D

My local shop has 100% return rate on those IBM harddrives (60GXP 75GXP and 120GXP) - I wouldn't recommend buying one, it's just a matter of time before it breaks (mine lived for about 4 months)

[airhead]

Whats the point in selling them if they are so crap? ???

[quote author=segfault link=board=3;threadid=3865;start=0#38790 date=1024654180]
Whats the point in selling them if they are so crap? ???
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IBM won't admit to them being faulty, so the dealers have to replace the broken drives with new identical ones. They don't sell any IBM drives anymore, but they have PLENTY on stock. Because IBM are stubborn, and completely refuses to admit that their drives are broken so all the dealers can do it replace the drives with other crappy IBM drives ever 4 months or so. (If the dealers replace IBM drives with drives other than IBM it comes out of their own pocket, so that way the circle never ends, because there's a new warrenty periode with each crappy drive)

[Ashcrow]

Well I have heard mixed reviews for the IBM 120GXP series. I was reading up on it and according to a couple diffrent testing groups the 120GXP's are very safe. The evil drives are the 60 or 70GXP's which would bail out and have data loss for little or no reason due to the platter setup. I don't think (hope) they sell them anymore.

Ashcrow, now that you have a sweet IBMharddrive, would you try out Tagged Command Queues for me, it's suppose to speed up the drive considerably.

it's part of the -jp kernel series, and the lastest hdparm.

[Ashcrow]

[quote author=Lovechild [llama lover] link=board=3;threadid=3865;start=0#38891 date=1024739838]
Ashcrow, now that you have a sweet IBMharddrive, would you try out Tagged Command Queues for me, it's suppose to speed up the drive considerably.

it's part of the -jp kernel series, and the lastest hdparm.
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If ya want I'll give it a shot after I format it.