Ibm Gxp180

[(Shovel)]

My brother is muttering about building a computer (God help me), and, having thrown out the specs he gave me and given him something rather better, we're down to dealing with a few loose ends. He needs a hard drive for one. I swear by Seagate Barracudas, mainly on the silence front, but a quick check on Storage Review says that the IBM GXP180 is almost as quiet, and Dabs says it's significantly cheaper. However, Seagate are well reknowned for being *very* reliable, which is always good, and the IBM GXP120 (I think) was a bit of a duffer?

Does anyone know how these ones perform relating to build quality over a longer time?

Thanks.

 

[Testin da Cable]

hmm I can't sing IBM's praises any more, though I have seriously old IBM SCSI drives that are well past their MTBF date and still work just fine.
personally I've become a WD convert. I have one of those special edition 80gig drives with the 8meg cache thing and they rock. really quiet and pretty darn fast.

 

[xane]

120GXP is fine, it was the 60GXP and 75GXP that had all the problems.

 

[(Shovel)]

Ahh OK, cheers Xane.

TDC, how much did it cost you?

 

[Deadmanwalking]

I also have the 80 meg WD cavier and it is truely wonderful

 

[Testin da Cable]

Originally posted by (Shovel)


TDC, how much did it cost you?

sorry matey, can't rightly remember. I'll see if I can find the papers

 

[.Cask]

My komplett special offers email thing has that WD SE drive down for £72. I'd buy one myself if I hadn't just had an electricity bill for £320, for the quarter

Also has P4 2.4GHz for £130, makes me wish I'd waited to upgrade.

 

[Scooba Da Bass]

Turn your monitor off mang!

 

[lovedaddy]

save starting another thread

what HDDs would people recommend these days for a cheap, reliable, tho not needed to be that fast, IDE fileserver?
Was looking at the Maxtor MaXLine II - 5400 spin, and 250Gig. But finding them in the UK is a pain.

Any suggestions?

 

[Xavier]

ooh, IBMs :uhoh:

we had 4x60Gb GXP60s in a test machine 2-3 years ago, all configured into a single 0+1 array...

plenty of people were reporting problems with their drives, so we decided one afternoon to copy our data off the raid partition, and on completion of the backup tested each drive separately with an integrity tool. During which 3 out of the four failed, never to spin up again

at the moment the best drives going are either the 8Mb 7200RPM Western Digitals as TDC says, or the equally specced Barracudas from Seagate... I'm currently tinkering with a stack of the 120Gb (from both manufacturer), PATA and SATA and only have good things to say...

 

[(Shovel)]

Well, I've recommended my brother towards one of the above mentioned Special Editions.

He's doing it all for the first time, bless him. He's coming back and forth to me asking whether a certain part is suitable or not, he tried to suggest an SODIMM for the main memory, which is starting to suggest that he is a right lazy bugger when it comes to the "learning and research" part, but ah well.

More disturbing is the thought of the 50 meters of Cat5 we'll have to run to get him online... *worries about that some other time*

 

[nylex23]

Originally posted by xane
120GXP is fine, it was the 60GXP and 75GXP that had all the problems.

My disk is either a 60GXP or 75GXP, but I've not had probs with it :/. Lucky .

 

[smurkin]

Nylex ... tempting fate there mister