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More on IBM 75GXP Drive Fiasco

Posted by michael on from the quality-control-is-priority-one dept.

FolkImplosion writes "Internal documents have been released suggesting that IBM was well-aware that its click-of-death 75GXP hard drives had a failure rate of as much as 10 times that of its competitors. IBM apparently sold drives it knew were faulty into distribution, and reportedly planned to deal with any issues with marketing spin rather than a fixing the problem. This new information should help bolster a class action suit that accuses IBM knowingly shipped defective 75GXP drives with abnormally high failure rates." The lawfirm pursuing the class action suit has a page of information, including the latest news report (pdf) on information coming out in the suits. See also our original story about the drive failures.

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  1. IBM staff still need to feed their families by Larry+David · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    People seem to get upside over this hard drive stuff, and sure, companies will make a screw up every now and then. But perhaps we should look at whether we should bust their chops for it every time it happens. IBM staff still need to feed their families and get paychecks.

    Do you really want 1000 IBM staff to be laid off because of a single hard drive model? Think of the children who will go hungry because their parents aren't bringing in a paycheck. Seriously folks, this all comes down to the children at the end of the day. They're the ones who suffer if this class action lawsuit succeeds.

    Humans make mistakes, let it go. And before you say 'IBM is a corporation'.. well, corporations are recognised as legal entities (i.e. like a person) in law, so they should be allowed to make mistakes from time to time too. I certainly wouldn't want those children's blood on my hands. Would you?

  2. XBox rules!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    first post!!! you lame assholes... I can post first because my XBox is a american product and my pride in my great country and my great XBox accelerate everything...

    If only they would make games for that bitch... IAve played Metroid Prime and it ruled... I hope M$ will buy those japanese bastards and port Metroid to my great american console system!!!