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More on IBM 75GXP Drive Fiasco

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. eff pee! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. IBM would never do that ! by andy666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They are the enemy of SCO - good guys! heehehe...

  3. I'm voting Dean!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    He's a Mac(gHey) user, and that's all that really matters....at least to me and the MacSlash crowd!!!

    -AcaBen
    www.macslash.org

  4. beego ogeeb by beego+ogeeb · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Corporate Psychopaths by irishkev · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Self-interested, amoral, callous and deceitful, a corporation's operational principles make it anti-social. It breaches social and legal standards to get its way even while it mimics the human qualities of empathy, caring and altruism. It suffers no guilt. Diagnosis: the institutional embodiment of laissez-faire capitalism fully meets the diagnostic criteria of a psychopath.

    Link to story.

  6. Re:Any still running? by Zigg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dammit, I just spent my last mod point... hehe.

  7. Re:I have one ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And your name is Troy McClure?

  8. I'm confused... by aug24 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    ...surely SCO ownz these drives, so isn't it their problem?

    J.

    --
    You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
  9. Ever see... by acidrain69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    an 800lb gorilla get raped in the ass?

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    -- Having a Creationist Museum is like having an Atheist place of worship