A question about IBM Deskstar 180GXP

[nuke78]

hi! i'm korean. So i'm not good at english.
Nowdays I'm considering for change my hard disk drive, because it's slow and noisy(than fluid bearing).
My HDD is WD Caviar 400BB, bought a year ago.

I've checked computer hardware market and I'm concerned about IBM deskstar 180GXP series. But I'm worry about its
durability because of problem on 75,120 series as you know.

I got 180 series specification, realized that it uses
fluid bearing(quiet) and platter's material is changed.

But I don't know whether the problem's improved or not.

In USA, I think it released more days ago than korea.
So, I want opinion for someone used this.
Thank you for read my poor writing.

 

[Napoleon]

Haven't got one myself, but it's perhaps a bit early for opinions anyway, at least when it comes to reliability. IBM only started shipping 180GXP on 30th September, according to their <A HREF="http://www-916.ibm.com/press/prnews.nsf/jan/06D50E8B8F78C7DE85256C44004CA876" target="_new">press release</A>. Haven't even found any review yet, to confirm if the 180GXP performance is up to what IBM claims.


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[Napoleon]

Old news, kind of, but here's a little <A HREF="http://www.btvillarin.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=605" target="_new">newsflash</A> I posted at <A HREF="http://www.btvillarin.com/" target="_new">BTVillarin</A> <A HREF="http://forums.btvillarin.com/" target="_new">forums</A> anyway.

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