🚀 go-pugleaf

Rod Speed wrote:

> Ribfeast <rib_feastREMOVETHIS@mac.com> wrote
> in message news:3BB51A29.D0F68D51@mac.com...
>
> > Had two IBM 30 gig 75GXP's go wierd on me the last few weeks,
> > one had bad sectors and was replaced under warranty, the other
> > suffered a track misalignment (fixed by a low level format).
>
> You cant do a true low level format on those
> drives, so it cant have been 'a track misalignment'
>
> > Watch the cooling in your computers guys as this
> > can hurry the track misalignment (head heats up).
>
> Gets sillier by the minute.
>
> > Also have an IBM 60GXP 40GB here running no problems.
> > Due to the problems with my IBM drives I bought a pair of
> > 60 gig Seagate Barracuda IV's and set them up as a RAID
> > 0 config.  Dead quiet, absolutely no noise at all during seeks.
>
> Plenty have had warranty problems with those too.
>
> > Benches around 65MB/sec on sequential transfers on the RAID.
> > The IBMs have slightly better seek times than the Seagates, but
> > not enough to be too worried about.  I'll stick to Seagate from now
> > on until good user reports of the next series of IBM drives trickle in :)
>
> > JNIK wrote:
>
> > > I was planning on going for the IBM Deskstar60GXP 41.1GB to accompany my
> > > asus a7m266 mobo but have heard alot of reports lately that they are having
> > > alot of troubles with this drive, has anybody got any alternatives they can
> > > recommend to me?
> > > cheers
> > > JNIK
> >

Hehe too true, one of the Seagates shit itself last night, taking 120GB of data on
the RAID 0 with it.  Luckily I had retrospect backups otherwise I'd be jumping off
a bridge right now :)  The Seagate would not show up on the IDE bus anymore so I
suspect it's controller board died (Just like my Barracuda II!).
Something was very wrong with the IBM drive, formatting it normally had no effect,
norton found nothing wrong with the directories, so it was either a corrupted
driver or something else.  It's all fixed up and running fine now.
I'll get a replacement Seagate next week, no more RAID 0 for me, I've learned my
lesson!
I think the only brands I have had no trouble with now are Quantum, Maxtor and
Western Digital.