Is this the end of my 120GXP?

[Cooler666]

my 120GXP still does that hard noise e.g. when i'm downloading something to it. Its funny because Windows is not even installed on this drive so it's not doing too much effort. In the first three weeks it didn't make these noises.
IBM i've got your number in my hand, it only looks like a matter of time before this hard disk fails.

 

[Max 86]

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[BadThad]

For the ignorant:

IBM GXP DeathStar

I would NEVER trust one of these drives. Check out the link to the user comments....OMG!

 

[orangezero]

just got an rma number for my 60gxp. hopefully they will be out of the 60gigs and just give me an 80 for my trouble. doubt it though. anyone know how long it takes to get them back??

thanks

 

[Cowboy X]

Thanx BadThad for that link ................ I know at least one person who would sign up for that .

 

[BigRed]

people... people... people...
the days of fast, cool hard drives are over. you can not have fast and cool with ibm anymore, they ARE the fastest ide hard drives (120gxp) but they do not run cool. you have to think of it as a cpu.
a fan blowing on it does squat. you need a HEATSINK to pull the heat AWAY from the hard drive. I use the Vantec ultimate hard drive cooler on my 75gxp, and i use another vantec hard drive cooler on the underside of the drive to cool the controller chips. i have had zero problems.
Try putting just a fan on your cpu and see how far you get
first cpus needed heatsinks too keep them cool, then they had to add them onto videocards, now its hard drives that are next in line.

 

[Dissolved]

people... people... people...
the days of fast, cool hard drives are over. you can not have fast and cool with ibm anymore, they ARE the fastest ide hard drives (120gxp) but they do not run cool. you have to think of it as a cpu.
a fan blowing on it does squat. you need a HEATSINK to pull the heat AWAY from the hard drive. I use the Vantec ultimate hard drive cooler on my 75gxp, and i use another vantec hard drive cooler on the underside of the drive to cool the controller chips. i have had zero problems.
Try putting just a fan on your cpu and see how far you get
first cpus needed heatsinks too keep them cool, then they had to add them onto videocards, now its hard drives that are next in line.

yea, what he said

 

[OrigamiMoose]

Don't get too complacent

For all you people sitting out there thinking that your Deskstar is fine cos you've not heard any noises from it yet look out. Mine was fine, no problems at all, then all of a sudden the computer crashes and the drive is dead.
Now all it does is constantly keep spinning up and I'm frantically looking for a way just to get it working for at least an hour or so because I've lost all my uni work (which I'd very luckily just finished), loads of other personal stuff and 2300 mp3's!

So don't sit there thinking yours isn't clicking or grinding so you won't worry until it does, back up everything now. And I'd reccomend no-one gets a Deskstar from the amount of problems I've heard about them, its just not worth the trouble.

 

[FTC]

OrigamiMoose,

The first thing I would do is to determine whether you have a hardware or logical error with that drive. Note that if the drive is spinning, it means that at least something is working...

If this happened to you after a crash, then probably what you have had is a 'landing' or overwriting of some critical part of the disk during the crash and unexpected power off. This is not supposed to happen... but happens even with today's technology.
And in this drives, there is a reserved area where really critical data is stored, so that it may avoid correct power up..

So, run to IBM web and download the DFT test diskette, and try to verify if the disk is OK phisically.

There is also the Feature tool, which you can also download from IBM, with which you may be able to restore some characteristics of the drive... just in case the flash memory has been accidentally erased.

Hope this helps a bit
Regards