Beware : IBM Deathstar IDE drives

[cHodAX]

Just a little warning, if anyone has an IBM Deskstar drive between 40gb to 120gb then I suggest you make a backup of your data asap. 2 of these drives have died on me in the last week, each in a different machine but with the exact same error. After doing some research I have found out that there is a common fault on 3 different Deskstar models that causes them die and become irreparable. IBM addressed the issue with a firmware upgrade but it seems to have been ineffective, now a class action lawsuit is being prepared as it seems IBM have known about this problem all along but failed to recall all the effected product.

Anyway, this is just a little heads up incase anyone is unfortunate enough (like myself) to own one or more of these shitty drives, backup while you can or you may end up with 100gb of lost and unrecoverable data like I did.

 

[Gamah]

I really did read that as IBM Deathstar at first...Beware: IBM Deathstar..I was affraid

Edit: WTF it did say deathstar...meh I am confuzzeld

 

[cHodAX]

I really did read that as IBM Deathstar at first...Beware: IBM Deathstar..I was affraid

Edit: WTF it did say deathstar...meh I am confuzzeld

Deathstar because they are an absolute fucking star when it comes to dying

 

[Gamah]

Ahh so they are not gonna fly round space blowing up planets then?

 

[cHodAX]

Ahh so they are not gonna fly round space blowing up planets then?

Well...


... mine flew around the living room and blew up when it hit the wall so I guess it is kind of like Emperor Palpatine's Deathstar in that regard.

 

[Danya]

Which models in particular are affected?

 

[Influenza]

Deskstar moidels have been that bad for years im surprised they still make them.

 

[cHodAX]

Which models in particular are affected?

IC35L040AVVN07-0 / IC35l060AVER07-0 and DTLA series, sizes ranging from 40gb to 120gb afaik.


1000+ posts thread here about it going back over 2 years...

http://www.tech-report.com/news_reply.x/2799/0/

Seems to be the whole IC35L0 series from what I can see.

 

[frogster]

Was it not IBM that lowered their HD warranties from 5 year to 1 year because they just werent upto scratch? :/

 

[cHodAX]

Was it not IBM that lowered their HD warranties from 5 year to 1 year because they just werent upto scratch? :/

Yup, then they sold off the hard drive business to Hitachi as they were facing that many complaints and warranty returns, now poor Hitachi are having to handle the whole mess.

 

[Oboy]

Yup, then they sold off the hard drive business to Hitachi as they were facing that many complaints and warranty returns, now poor Hitachi are having to handle the whole mess.

if u still have warranty ( 2years afaik, date is on the drive) u just send it to Hitachi and get it replaced, i did it with mine and it was 1 year and 11 months old when it crashed. Cost me 10e to send it and a month later a dude from usp came with my new disk

 

[Chilly]

but then hitachi get all your pron

 

[cHodAX]

but then hitachi get all your pron

Aye thats the problem, too much sensitive personal data and pr0n

 

[Danya]

Ah good mine are HDS drives, not IC35 or DTLA.

 

[Marrok]

I lost 2 of these, 40GB version, and a friend lost atleast 4 in his server

 

[Oboy]

Aye thats the problem, too much sensitive personal data and pr0n

disc is broken so they cant get it anyway, dont think they bother switch the discs to a working drive just to to ur pr0n
about personal data, i never store this on a disc, to dangerous in case of a hack or a crash

 

[cHodAX]

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about personal data, i never store this on a disc, to dangerous in case of a hack or a crash

I would be mightly pissed if I got hacked behind two firewalls (one is hardware) and a correctly configured operating system. Add ontop of that I run a full system scan with my anti-virus every 12 hours and do spyware sweeps on a daily basis as well. It would take a kickass hacker to get at my data and I don't think the real good hackers would be interested in lil old me As for storing vital data on the drives, well I usually keep everything backed up but some stuff is just too big to be archived without spending silly amounts of money, so I take the risk like everyone else.

 

[sedde]

Whats a lesson to all who are still buying disks not other from Maxtor !

 

[Jarakin]

Just a little warning, if anyone has an IBM Deskstar drive between 40gb to 120gb then I suggest you make a backup of your data asap. 2 of these drives have died on me in the last week, each in a different machine but with the exact same error. After doing some research I have found out that there is a common fault on 3 different Deskstar models that causes them die and become irreparable. IBM addressed the issue with a firmware upgrade but it seems to have been ineffective, now a class action lawsuit is being prepared as it seems IBM have known about this problem all along but failed to recall all the effected product.

Anyway, this is just a little heads up incase anyone is unfortunate enough (like myself) to own one or more of these shitty drives, backup while you can or you may end up with 100gb of lost and unrecoverable data like I did.

Yeah, I had 2x 60 gb IBM DeskStar IDE drives die on me within 2 weeks on 2 different systems sometime last year, both bought from same supplier at the same time. IBM/Hitatchi DeskStar drives are notoriously prone to dying horrible deaths, avoid at all costs, go the extra £4-5 and buy a Seagate.

 

[Chronictank]

had 2 die on me, 1st data was un-recovarable, the 2nd was the repalcement they sent me :/
i dont buy from IBM anymore, i wonder why

 

[frogster]

*Strokes his Western Digital Raptors*

 

[cHodAX]

Replaced the faulty drives with Maxtor drives but I am not overly impressed, they make alot more noise than all my other drives. I rate Seagate very highly these days and of course Western Digital make great performance drives.

 

[Danya]

Replaced the faulty drives with Maxtor drives but I am not overly impressed, they make alot more noise than all my other drives. I rate Seagate very highly these days and of course Western Digital make great performance drives.

Best drive I had (well still have it but not in use due to noise) is my Seagate SCSI disk, very reliable, very fast.

 

[cHodAX]

Best drive I had (well still have it but not in use due to noise) is my Seagate SCSI disk, very reliable, very fast.

In my line of work I see dead Seagate SCSI drives all the time from servers and yet I rarely see a dead Seagate IDE drive from a desktop, WD drives (mainly OEM for Compaq) on the other hand seem to have a pretty high failure rate.

 

[bashir]

hmmm that explains alot... got myself an IBM-DTLA-307030, and on booting , half of the time it aint recognised and I have to reboot. It also makes a clicking noise.

was thinking "time to dust out the pc" but now i see it aint just me..

fucking IBM , spent loads (back then) at that drive.

 

[bashir]

.. WD drives (mainly OEM for Compaq) on the other hand seem to have a pretty high failure rate.

yeah but that is mainly because of the bad design of the the Compaq PC's.

I'm unemployed now for 3 years (*sob*) but back when I was a techy and worked alot with Compaq Evo and EN(S) workstations, they had the harddisks built in just above the CPU, with not enough cooling

Fried HD anyone?

 

[Kelio]

lost 40gb of my precious

 

[Kelio]

I would be mightly pissed if I got hacked behind two firewalls (one is hardware) and a correctly configured operating system. Add ontop of that I run a full system scan with my anti-virus every 12 hours and do spyware sweeps on a daily basis as well.

Paranoid?

 

[Urme the Legend]

I have 2 80gb IBM desktar discs.. not sure of model, but they are working great.. been using them for 1.5 years now...

 

[Lakih]

I have 2 80gb IBM desktar discs.. not sure of model, but they are working great.. been using them for 1.5 years now...

Make a backup asap... I had the same thing and thought, "hey, it aint going to happen to me" but then

Now im running WD disc's without problem... have been throwing away to many noisy Maxtor disc's at work to trust them even tho lots of people use them and are happy with them...