More on IBM 75GXP Drive Fiasco

Posted by michael on Wednesday February 18, 2004 @12:56AM 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.

2 of 371 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:IBM would never do that ! by wiggys · 2004-02-18 01:01 · Score: -1, Redundant

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

--
Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.
Re:What a load of crap by notamac · 2004-02-18 01:38 · Score: -1, Redundant

So let me get this straight... we don't like IBM today? Until there's another SCO story and then we do like them? What if they sold those drives to SCO... then could we like them for making bad drives? I'm so terribly confused.