Has anyone bought anything from ebay, and a compant called TDI or on ebay known ass pcamarket (seller) sells junk!
Has anyone known what IBM uses as thier disks in thier hd's? I just got done with one, after making it fall, I mean slam into the sidewalk on its corner, and it split open, and it emitted shards of itsy bitsy glass everywhere! when did they use glass in hd's?
IBM Deskstar 75GXP 61.4GB
Man, your all over the place in this post!
The glass disks are more dimensionally stable over a given operating temp range & they are a clear notch above metal disks if made optimally. Cheap drives use metal (AL alloy?) disks & premium use glass.
Perhaps the G-force max rating is lower however & slams to concrete may not sit too well with them!
The glass disks are more dimensionally stable over a given operating temp range & they are a clear notch above metal disks if made optimally. Cheap drives use metal (AL alloy?) disks & premium use glass.
Perhaps the G-force max rating is lower however & slams to concrete may not sit too well with them!
There is a class action lawsuit going thru the courts right now on the IBM hdisk drives being falsely advertized as to their MTBF #hours being grossly overstated. Maximum PC magazine has been reporting on this & has surveyed their readers to collect statistical data that could help proove that IBM was BS-ing & knew for some time that large numbers of the drives in question were defectively manufactured.
Still was fun hearing it go KA-CHING on impact then a shimmer/crackle .... shimmer..... shimmer....., then on the rebound a ka-chunk of the aluminum block comming to a final rest 3 feet from where impact took place. The drive I bought was never intended to be pulled out of a pc, then RMA'd, looks like someone got a hold on a large number of drives large companies take back as warrenty replacements and sold them on ebay as "NON WORKING DRIVES" knowing that they werent warrentied from MFG originally. If I had known this prior of bidding, I wouldnt of had to throw a IBM drive onto the now glimmering sidewalk.
I new a guy who had his Novell server running two mirrored Micropolis SCSI drives & when the bearings went bad on one, he sent it in for replacement. Running unmirrored for a few days, and the replacement drive comes promptly. Before he has time to even get it out of the box & installed, the second driive tanks on him & he's stuck with a server rebuild & restore from tape. Micropolis disappeared from the scene soon after.