More on IBM 75GXP Drive Fiasco 371
FolkImplosion writes "Internal documents have been released suggesting that IBM was well-aware that its click-of-death 75GXP hard drives had a failure rate of as much as 10 times that of its competitors. IBM apparently sold drives it knew were faulty into distribution, and reportedly planned to deal with any issues with marketing spin rather than a fixing the problem. This new information should help bolster a class action suit that accuses IBM knowingly shipped defective 75GXP drives with abnormally high failure rates." The lawfirm pursuing the class action suit has a page of information, including the latest news report (pdf) on information coming out in the suits. See also our original story about the drive failures.
Groupthink needs synchronizing (Score:-1, Funny)
I guess I need to update my "slashdot-think" again. I am falling behind the times.
Tell me, do we still hate Microsoft?
Re:Reputation (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, this gets so confusing.
Re:Makes me wonder about the Hitachi ones out now? (Score:1, Funny)
What can I say? It's a hard disk.
The only problem is it makes that "dying hard drive squeak". It always has, it passes all diagnostics and it works fine.
It's a good drive, but the noise worries me sometimes.
Woah (Score:-1, Funny)
Re:Any still running? (Score:5, Funny)
"click of death" trademark earned by Iomega (Score:1, Funny)
IBM don't need to get a free ride on Iomega's notoriously bad reputation, they have passed that mark on their own without any help.
Maybe there ougth to be a catchy name for the IBM deskstar experience, preferrably something that can follow their HD's reputation with them to Hitachi
There is one. (Score:4, Funny)
I got on IRC right after bringing home my Hitachi Deskstar 180GB drive (I wrote it as 160 elsewhere, oops), to brag about Fry's price of $70 after rebate.
The response? "You bought a DeathStar?"
Needless to say, that didn't please me much. Nor did Fry's lying to me about how they'd handle the rebate when the store didn't have the forms on hand, but that's an issue with them...
Re:Hard drives and mainframe manufacturers (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Makes me wonder about the Hitachi ones out now? (Score:4, Funny)
did you send the sectors to time out?
Re:Makes me wonder about the Hitachi ones out now? (Score:3, Funny)
So I stopped at best buy and purchased a dvd burner. Everything seemed ok after that.
Re:Other uses for DeathStar drives ... (Score:3, Funny)
(Use the preview button, Luke!)
Re:Lawyers to pocket $100M, consumers to get coupo (Score:5, Funny)
I dont have 10 friends, you insensitive clod !
Re:Reputation (Score:2, Funny)
Behold, two IBM drives. (Score:2, Funny)
Heh.
Re:Reputation (Score:2, Funny)
Ah, the legendary IBM technology business adaptation skills...
Tomorrow on ibm.com: "Welcome to IBM - Irreplaceable Bratwurst Machines(r), the finest production equipment for food industry. Meat In, Sausages Out(sm)" =)
Re:Institutional behaviour (Score:3, Funny)
Really? To me, it sounds like the really bad sequel to "fear dot com".
This isn't limited to 75GXPs (Score:3, Funny)