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"IBM Harddrive"

Anyone know if an IBM hdd will run with an Intel motherboard? doesn't say anything in the spec details i've got, i'd have thought they'd be no problems but i'm just checking :)

Point is Fog, it wasn't just mine that was faulty. The stall I bought it from had had most of them returned after they broke and IBM refused to have them back. IBM will only take them back after they cease to function, unbearable high pitched whining doesn't seem to count.

There were also a lot more cases of the harddrives that I saw on the internet. But like I said, luckily the store offered to accept it back and give us a different make one, one that was actually more expensive, just for our troubles. I think it was a maxtor.

Whether it was a bad batch, or they're all faulty, I don't know. But either way, there customer service is very bad, and their harddrives are faulty. The one we have now has a three year no quible guarantee, much better.

It's your own risk if you buy one. But I'd check the policy of the place you're getting it from, to see how easy it'd be to return it. I've heard of people stuck with these whining HDDs, as IBM won't take them back until they actually stop working.

Of couse it was faulty. It had IBM written on the side.

Yeah, i'm probably gonna get a seagate one soon too but this IBM one looked like a pretty darn good deal.

Maybe your hdd was faulty Tom? i'll see how it goes anyway...

Good for you. Get a nice Maxtor or Seagate.

We had an IBM hardrive in one of our PCs, the 40GB 7200rpm one...for about a month.

After that, it went very noisy. Before risking anything else, we backed up the data and took it straight back, where we exchanged it for another make one, I forget the name, but it's the same specs and it works too! Great. Beware, IBM hardrives are crap.

Their customer service is crap too when you want to send it back. We were lucky, the stall we bought it from had had lots of returns and refused to sell any more IBM hardrives. They accepted it straight back, as they were sending the whole batch back to IBM. But I've heard tails where the store refuses to accept it back, and gets them to send it back to IBM. IBM refuse to admit most of them are faulty, and send it straight back!

We've sworn never to buy another one.

Er, heh, I meant "fails loads" as in "they fail a lot"

:-)

Access speed is 8.8ms which isn't too bad for a 7200rpm but failed loads is a bit riske... :s anyway, it's so darn cheap, worth a shot.
What would you recommend for future reference? :)

Doesn't matter about the specs, they have slow access speeds and fail loads.

ah feck, 40Gb, 7200rpm hdd and it's a crappa? arg, thanks anyway Whooo! :)

Wouldnt think there'd be any problems, but be aware that IBM HDDs are shoote.