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| 690442 | 2008-07-21 07:45:00 | After the problems, IBM sold their hard drive division to Hitachi. Initially I think the drives were pretty much the same... and 20GB is rather small(and old) so I don't think there would be much difference I think it comes from the platters being made of glass, later drives were issued with warnings telling people not to use them for more than 8hrs a day But now days I believe all the Hitachi drives are "normal" ones with metal platters |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 690443 | 2008-07-21 07:59:00 | This site has examples of two failure sounds from IBM/Hitachi drives www.dataclinic.co.uk Neither fault is an actual head crash. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 690444 | 2008-07-21 08:08:00 | www.theinquirer.net The drives are just faulty design. And there is no fix for that :lol: |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 690445 | 2008-07-21 09:08:00 | :lol: I opened the drive and spun it up, and it wouldn't read the discs properly. It's screwed now - one of the platters shattered. :eek: |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 690446 | 2008-07-21 09:22:00 | That's what you get when they're made of glass - why IBM thought of making them out of glass I have no idea... | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 690447 | 2008-07-21 09:30:00 | Here's hoping my laptop's IBM drive won't fail... | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 690448 | 2008-07-21 09:36:00 | Should be fine, as far as I know the problem was only with the deskstars (quickly searches google) or maybe not..... Well I've got a Hitachi travelstar in mine (not default, I put it in there myself) but it seems to be fine I also have a deskstar running linux (it's one of the later models, 120GXP I think) which seems to be working fine too. But who knows.....? |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 690449 | 2008-07-21 09:51:00 | my seagate drive made clicking noises. I was able to recover all the data from it before the smart status declared it a FAIL. | utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 690450 | 2008-07-21 20:54:00 | I think the drive was so old it didn't have SMART :lol: | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 690451 | 2008-07-21 22:17:00 | I think the drive was so old it didn't have SMART :lol: If you're referring to the Deathstar it did have SMART but like most drives they fail before you get any warning. |
PaulD (232) | ||
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