Didn't IBM get out of the HD business?!

[NuTs62]

Thats what I thought, but when I was going on their page to return a COUPLE more drives that JUST went bad on me, here i see that they've come out with 180GB drives, with 2MB and 8MB buffer.. so wtf is going on!? And it looks like they're proud that Falcon Northwest uses their drives in their gaming systems.. looks like Falcon Northwest can see a decline in sales :P not that I know a single person who buys from 'em anyways :shrug: Linkage (http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/desk/180gxp_launch.htm)

[sbp]

A new line of Deathstars. Yippie. http://home.earthlink.net/~sbp777/pics/bleh.gif

IBM sold 70% of their hard drive business to Hitachi. Hitachi will buy the rest of it over 3 years.
http://www-916.ibm.com/press/prnews.nsf/jan/8E7E26A18EA943C485256BCD00514026

[sbp]

Some gentlemen is having weird sounds with his Deathstars, contacted IBM about it and this is what happened:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=&postid=26614#post26614

"Hmmm, IBM basically said they don't care until the drive itself falls apart or crashes. They too told me to back it up but if I am to return it they would power it up, not see the problem and they would ship it out again. I said, "Are you serious??". Yep they were. Of course they asked me if I used their utilities which I said yes and they didn't find a problem and they told me that it could be fragmented. So seeing how it is running NTFS and NTFS is supposed to be good for fragmentation I took a look. Not a problem.

But thanks everyone and definitely I'm going to back this drive up. I suspect a month or two it will go belly up"

[i6s1]

Those jerks. If this were almost any other company, they would reacall them all.

[NuTs62]

lets just hope they don't send me back the same ****ty drives that i'm sending them. at least gimme new ones, so i can sell it or put it in some crappy machine.

[Markel]

Originally posted by NuTs62
lets just hope they don't send me back the same ****ty drives that i'm sending them. at least gimme new ones, so i can sell it or put it in some crappy machine.
The one they sent me on a warranty return had labels "Serviceable Used Part" on the shipping box and the drive. The drive label is just a separate sticker, but you'd have to cut open the antistatic bag to get to it.