IBM Deskstar 120GXP 120GB DMA/ATA-100 EIDE user reviews (Ultra)

Pros Well, it worked for a while.

Cons Deskstars apparently have history of failure.

Summary The reason I'm here is that I'm looking for a new drive to replace the Deskstar that crashed about a month ago. I unfortunately did not back up the data on the drive and I'm going to have to pay thousands to recover it.

I spoke with a data recovery business that said they had seen many Deskstars fail - to the extent that they contacted IBM about it. But IBM refused to acknowledge a problem. I won't be buying a Deskstar again.

Pros works for a few months to maybe a year

Cons after a few months the "click of death" starts to happen. just started happening to me and it crashes 3 times a day. IBM wont replace even though its only a month out of warranty. bottom line DONT buy it because its cheap. buy a seagate!

Pros Very fast drive

Cons I work in the music industry and used my "trusty" ibm deskstar 80gb drive to store our production masters, after 8 months the drive just totally died resulting in me loosing my job. Aswell as this my boss filed a law suit against me and so far I've lost

Pros that it works

Cons when it fails. Oh, and when the replacement drive fails also after being told the first one was "part of a bad batch".