I was about to get this model until I read the countless number of horrific reviews about the drive developing bad sectors and crashing. Is this a design defect or is a manufacturing defect? The only reason I could find on the Internet (Anandtech) is that the platters expand when they're warm and the firmware doesn't account for that all the time. They also mentioned that the drives that were made in the Hungarian plant were the ones that failed the most. This leads me to think it's a manufacturing defect.
I ended up getting a 120GXP 80GB since the 75GXP had a high failure rate and that I have had good experience with IBM drives before (14GXP and Deskstar8). I guess my question is that, would any of these problems we see in the 75GXP series carry over to the 120GXP?
I ended up getting a 120GXP 80GB since the 75GXP had a high failure rate and that I have had good experience with IBM drives before (14GXP and Deskstar8). I guess my question is that, would any of these problems we see in the 75GXP series carry over to the 120GXP?