More on IBM 75GXP Drive Fiasco

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

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait, I thought we were supposed to be big fans of IBM.

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

[yobbo]

But don't we all love them now because they support linux?

Ah, this gets so confusing.

Re:Makes me wonder about the Hitachi ones out now?

[SpinyManiac]

I've got a 120GB/8MB 7200RPM Hitachi.
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

[Anonymous Coward]

Back up there a second Mikey.. I thought IBM were the good guys now?

Re:Any still running?

[Anonymous Coward]

Runs great A+++++++ Seller BEST Hardrive Ive ever owned!!!!!!!!!!

"click of death" trademark earned by Iomega

[pacc]

What is the "click of death"? [grc.com]

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.

[Artifex]

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 ;)

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

[perly-king-69]

Given that Hitachi now own IBM's HD business, I doubt whether you could call them two manufacturers.

Re:Makes me wonder about the Hitachi ones out now?

[Ween]

"except when I dug around in my parents system and when I put it back together, their 40GB seems to have some really bad sectors"

did you send the sectors to time out?

Re:Makes me wonder about the Hitachi ones out now?

[duffbeer703]

I like to drive Hondas. Once I was driving down the street and my clutch started sticking.

So I stopped at best buy and purchased a dvd burner. Everything seemed ok after that.

Re:Other uses for DeathStar drives ...

[Stavr0]

... strong enough to hold a hammer

(Use the preview button, Luke!)

Re:Lawyers to pocket $100M, consumers to get coupo

[boaworm]

simply tell 10 of your friends

I dont have 10 friends, you insensitive clod !
;-)

Re:Reputation

[operagost]

We know that IBM is capable of turning against strategic platforms overnight - they have done so in the past.

**cough**OS/2**cough**

Behold, two IBM drives.

[celerityfm]

Don't forget the classic tale of Two IBM Drives [hogens.com]!!

Heh.

Re:Reputation

[WWWWolf]

We know that IBM is capable of turning against strategic platforms overnight - they have done so in the past.

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

[HoldmyCauls]

"click of death" sounds like the drive is failing because one of the moving parts... is burnt out

Really? To me, it sounds like the really bad sequel to "fear dot com".

This isn't limited to 75GXPs

[Trogre]

Where I come from, IBM DeskStars are now known as Death Stars.