Digital BW, The Print

Regarding the 60GXP;

I'm using an IBM 60G  AV drive - the same drive (Vendor#
IC35L060AVER07-0) that Oracle uses. In Mac G3/450, OS8.6. Fast,
reliable. I'm getting a second soon.

Paul Butterfield

cf-lists@... wrote:
> 
> The latest I've heard about a class action lawsuit against IBM for their
> hard drives does, in fact, involve their deskstar hard drives--specifically,
> the 75GXP. My best recollection is that it was a problem with the fragility
> of their glass platters, but I couldn't swear to that. Here's an article:
> 
> http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,67608,00.asp
> 
> If you google on [ibm deskstar class action], you'll come up with loads of
> links on the subject.
> 
> Nevertheless, I am, for no good reason, a moderately consistent buyer of IBM
> drives. I guess I started buying them because they, at one point, were the
> leaders in data density. I've had one go bad (a 10K RPM SCSI drive), and
> getting the warranty replacement was trivially easy, and remarkably speedy.
> The present generation of 7.2K RPM drives, the 60GXP, is not, to my
> knowledge, subject to the reliability problems that are reputed to plague
> the 75GXP. The 60GXP also has a higher data density (20 GB/platter, rather
> than 15GB/platter) and so should be faster, and probably generate less heat
> (fewer moving objects).
> 
> For what it's worth, I own a 60GB 60GXP and am about to order another to use
> in a striped configuration. If I were starting from scratch, I'd probably
> simply buy the least expensive 20 GB/platter, 7200 RPM, ATA 100 drive I
> could find. I'm generally skeptical of the idea that, in computer
> components, you can reliably correlate brand name & reliability.
> 
> Chris

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