LA_MERC_LaTech
January 29th, 2004, 07:29 AM
Ok...so here's the deal...
A couple months ago, I formatted my HD (I do this once a year) and upgraded my motherboard, video card and CPU. It took a number of hours to re-install all my software (20 GB worth), and all was fine and good in Tech land. I went to eat lunch that day, and when I came back, my 40 GB IBM HD had died. I was VERY upset because not only were there 2 partitions on the HD, but the Windows partition had been destroyed as well as my archive directory where I backed all my downloaded software to! Ooooh...I was mad at IBM. This HD was 2 years old.
SO! I had a spare 20 sitting around and I put it in my PC and installed 20 GB worth of data again. What fun. I RMA'ed the dead HD to IBM, and was asured that eventually, I would receive a replacement HD in the mail. I did (3 weeks later) and all was fine and good in Tech land.
SO! This new HD was sitting on my counter top for...oh, a month or so (who wants to shut down their machine when everything is working well?!). The other day (Friday of last week to be exact), I ghosted my 20 GB to the NEW AND IMPROVED 40 GB HD manufactured now by Hitachi (who mistakenly purchased IBM's HD manufacturing line, thinking it was a good business move).
SO! I've been noticing this last weekend and couple days weird things happening in my machine. It actually locked up...3 times! My machine NEVER locks up! Well, I just wrote it off as a fluke...power problems or something. Well, little did I know that it WASN'T power problems, nor was it a fluke.
SO! Last night, I'm playing CS...having a good time killing those terrorists who are trying to blow up this Semi and or Plane. All of a sudden, I hear my HD spin down (as it sounds when it loses power). I was like, "Huh?" It powered back up and I was still playing CS...so, all was kinda ok in Tech land. I run around in circles after saying "My PC is doing some weird things..." And the HD does it again, but this time, it cycles up and down about 4 times REALLY FAST. "Uh oh....that's not good." "I gotta go guys, my PC is freaking out!" And I shut down my PC.
SO! I give it a second to think about how bad it's been, and then I reboot. It makes it into Windows without any problems. All is concerned, but pretening not to be, in Tech land. I take the side off my PC and notice a weird whining sound eminating from my "NEW" HD. "Erm..." So, I decide to push on the bottom of the HD to see if moving it will help (yeah, looking back that seems stupid, but at the time it was a valid solution). It helps....THE COMPUTER LOCK UP! Ok...so, we have issues with the HD now.
SO! Thankfully, I never formatted the 20 from which I ghosted, so I install that back into my machine (breaking the head off one of the screws in the process) and reboot. Ta-Da! No problems. I get online and go to IBM's website to see if I can RMA this drive...BINGO! They don't support that drive even though the origional drive WAS a IBM drive. So, I go to Hitachi. Blah blah blah..."your RMA # is..."
SO! Part of me thinks, "I'm going to get this HD back, and it's going to be a POS also." Afterall...that WAS a NEW HD they sent me to begin with (supposedly).
SO! Now that I've completely bored you with my story (if, indeed, you've read this long!), I'm in the market for a new HD. BESIDES IBM and HITACHI, does anyone have a favorite HD manufacturer that produces QUALITY drives?
I'm gonna put this 40 (when/if I get it back!) on E-Bay and may replace the IBM 80GB I have as well...
LaTech
A couple months ago, I formatted my HD (I do this once a year) and upgraded my motherboard, video card and CPU. It took a number of hours to re-install all my software (20 GB worth), and all was fine and good in Tech land. I went to eat lunch that day, and when I came back, my 40 GB IBM HD had died. I was VERY upset because not only were there 2 partitions on the HD, but the Windows partition had been destroyed as well as my archive directory where I backed all my downloaded software to! Ooooh...I was mad at IBM. This HD was 2 years old.
SO! I had a spare 20 sitting around and I put it in my PC and installed 20 GB worth of data again. What fun. I RMA'ed the dead HD to IBM, and was asured that eventually, I would receive a replacement HD in the mail. I did (3 weeks later) and all was fine and good in Tech land.
SO! This new HD was sitting on my counter top for...oh, a month or so (who wants to shut down their machine when everything is working well?!). The other day (Friday of last week to be exact), I ghosted my 20 GB to the NEW AND IMPROVED 40 GB HD manufactured now by Hitachi (who mistakenly purchased IBM's HD manufacturing line, thinking it was a good business move).
SO! I've been noticing this last weekend and couple days weird things happening in my machine. It actually locked up...3 times! My machine NEVER locks up! Well, I just wrote it off as a fluke...power problems or something. Well, little did I know that it WASN'T power problems, nor was it a fluke.
SO! Last night, I'm playing CS...having a good time killing those terrorists who are trying to blow up this Semi and or Plane. All of a sudden, I hear my HD spin down (as it sounds when it loses power). I was like, "Huh?" It powered back up and I was still playing CS...so, all was kinda ok in Tech land. I run around in circles after saying "My PC is doing some weird things..." And the HD does it again, but this time, it cycles up and down about 4 times REALLY FAST. "Uh oh....that's not good." "I gotta go guys, my PC is freaking out!" And I shut down my PC.
SO! I give it a second to think about how bad it's been, and then I reboot. It makes it into Windows without any problems. All is concerned, but pretening not to be, in Tech land. I take the side off my PC and notice a weird whining sound eminating from my "NEW" HD. "Erm..." So, I decide to push on the bottom of the HD to see if moving it will help (yeah, looking back that seems stupid, but at the time it was a valid solution). It helps....THE COMPUTER LOCK UP! Ok...so, we have issues with the HD now.
SO! Thankfully, I never formatted the 20 from which I ghosted, so I install that back into my machine (breaking the head off one of the screws in the process) and reboot. Ta-Da! No problems. I get online and go to IBM's website to see if I can RMA this drive...BINGO! They don't support that drive even though the origional drive WAS a IBM drive. So, I go to Hitachi. Blah blah blah..."your RMA # is..."
SO! Part of me thinks, "I'm going to get this HD back, and it's going to be a POS also." Afterall...that WAS a NEW HD they sent me to begin with (supposedly).
SO! Now that I've completely bored you with my story (if, indeed, you've read this long!), I'm in the market for a new HD. BESIDES IBM and HITACHI, does anyone have a favorite HD manufacturer that produces QUALITY drives?
I'm gonna put this 40 (when/if I get it back!) on E-Bay and may replace the IBM 80GB I have as well...
LaTech