who knows about IBM hard drives?

what is the difference between the 120gxp and the 60gxp? is there a performance/reliability difference or is one just a newer model and there is really no difference?

repeat after me, we are all individuals!

Why is IBM scaring off their potential customers?

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

Agreed, IBM is sure going to be losing a lot of sales this way.

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

Nice, I'd love to see a Sandra benchmark on that drive.

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

That is using the VIA drivers that come with WinXP.
Haven't installed newer VIA drivers because these are stable and work just fine.

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The seek time reported is a little slower than the 60GXP but in real use you
can't tell it. It is a little louder than the IBM or maybe just a different
sound, can't tell. I like it.


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hehe, well, low-end RAID at least. I believe 2 30GB ATA66 hard drives score just over 30000.

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

You should be more than pleased! That's great!



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I ran another one after a clean up & defrag and got...can't remember. I took a screendump, but I'm in college right now. LoL.

It was something like 427**. Yep, I'm chuffed!

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I run all five of my Maxtor Drives 24hours a day 7days a week! I have a 53073H6, 3-5T030H3, and a 5T060H6. They have been running that way for close to a year an a half.

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I have to give IBM credit for being honest in its capability though.

Crap, all the good ones are already taken.

I think on that whole 333 hours a month thing is two fold.

They didn't want to put 666.

They didn't want to have to tell people, 'You need to cool the living bejesus out of this hard drive line because the controller chip has a tendency to convert to the liquid phase, burning a hole through the case/carpet/foundation just like those Aliens do when one of the marines nails it with a 10mm round'.

Check out the post where they are no longer saying the drive is to be only run for 333 hours monthly.

It should be supposed that the new bearing and the glass surface for the disks are better then what have been used for the 60GXP series which is running 720 h/month in my computer since a year and half. I received an answer to this question from the IBM technical support that assured me, the 120GXP series can withstand with no problems to 24/7 duty cycle even it has been designed for home/office use where tipically the computer remains on for no more then 10 hours a day. But this strange indication (333 h/month=11 h/day) is still reported by IBM in the 120GXP technical documentation. I already bought a 120 GB 120GXP. It runs with power continuously on with no problems from (only) two weeks. You will hear from me for any news. I am not very kind with HDD. I have a big experience on how to destroy an HDD and I already put out of order an old Conner, a Quantum, and also an IBM (DJAA).
I believe that it is important to understand how stringent are the requirements established by a HDD maker to define that the hd unit is perfectly functional.
I always noted that IBM lets to know many more features of their HDD than it is possible to find for any other HDD maker. This could be the reason which caused the necessity to specify the typical (333 h/month) application of such HDD.
I will take you informed.

OK, I will.