IBM drives - 7200 is the number of death

[BajaRulez]

Hi guys!

It seems that I'm always having problems with HDD's. So I'm a supervisor and work with about 50 machines. In another issue I was concerned about Samsung HDD's, which we bought earlier and said, that IBM is the best chocie. Now we have 5 machines which have 20 and 40 GB IBM 7200 RPM drives. Last week I was quite busy saving data out of all them, while they started giving clicking sounds, which we call the click of death. This basically appears when data can not be accesed on the disk. So thank god I acted quickly, because today I face a hell of a problem - 4 out of the 5 machines are not working any more. When Windows tries to boot up, it hangs and says there are bad sectors, which is not quite true, but still, the drives wont work. There is a very good program ABIT released with its motherboards, the Low Level Format Utility, which can check the whole drive as well. Useful little utility, shows that data cant be accesed due to the electronics. So, I guess I have to return them, luckely IBM gives 3 years of warranty. If anyone has the same problem, than please write, maybe theres a solution to my problem without having to return them. I usually can fix all the stuff here, but this ...

Thanks in advance

 

[fasttoon]

you probably got the 75gxp models, they have that problem and have a class action lawsuit against IBM, if this is the case you might want to look into it and participate.

 

[BajaRulez]

Yes, I think I have these models. Yesterday I took them back though and in a week time they will change all of them. So no real problem here, only a bit of a time loss. However knowing this I'll probably ask for Seagate or Quantum drives instead. Hopefully everything will go fine