IBM 75GXP troubles

[Moses]

Hello,

I have been using a 30.0 GB IBM 75GXP hard drive for the past 2 years. I have had it fail on me twice when using it as a main drive. After the 2nd failure I was fed up and ordered a 2nd hard drive to be used as my main one and continue to use the IBM drive as backup for mp3s and whatnot. Then I began to read about all of the problems that IBM has had with those drives and class action lawsuits and such. I believe that the only reason the drive hasnt failed a 3rd time is because I'm using it as a backup slave drive rather than a primary drive...so it's not being accessed as frequently.

My question is: The drive is still good (when it doesn't fail) and I am planning on giving the drive to a friend to use as his primary drive. Is it worth the risk of it failing for a 3rd time? Is there any new IBM software that will prevent these failures??? Or are the 75GXPs just a pile of junk and should I just tell him to buy a new drive???

 

[lhgpoobaa]

If that drive has failed before it will most likely do it again... and no software will prevent it from happening. some people have reported that active drive cooling can help, but only in certain cases.

so yes. the 75GXP is most likely a pile of junk. I certainly dont trust my 60gxp anymore, even though its a replacement for the one that died.

my main drives are now a westerndigital 800JB and a maxtor D740x. and both have been error free since new.

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[Moses]

You're right...I guess I will buy a WD drive instead. But I have another question: What would be the safest way to get all of my existing data off of that drive. right now I have about 20 gigs of mp3s and movies on there and the only reason I stored them there is because I don't access it that often and it hasnt given me trouble since it's not my main drive. But I would think that moving 20 gigs worth of data over to a new drive might increase my chances of it failing and I certainly dont want to lose any of my media files. So what's the safest way to transfer? Take it out and hook it up to my new computer?(which I dont have yet) or network my old pc to my new one and transfer the files that way maybe...or a third option, but not preferred, would be to backup all the data onto cdrws....thoughts please.....

 

[HammerBot]

Hook it up as a slave in your new PC. In that way you can transfer the 20G off the drive as fast as possible. I guess this is preferable if you think failure of the drive is emminent.

 

[lhgpoobaa]

yeah, just hook it up to your new PC and copy the files off quickly.

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