I had the misfortune of using 4 IDE 60G DeathStars, 2 for work and 2 for home use. Within 6 months 2 of the HD failed on me! Please do not use IBM DeathStar HD especially with such a high capacity.
IMHO, this issue is indicative of what is plaguing the computer industry in general, that hardware companies love to market a product by boiling down the "quality" of a product into 1 or 2 quantifiable performance measurements. i.e. PSU - wattage, processors-clock speed, HD-capacity/transfer rate. We as consumers buy into this philosophy. If a cheapy-asian component's performance in 1 or 2 categories is equivalent to a reputable brand's, but 20% cheaper, heck we'd all buy it. But what we have to start doing is evaluating products in all aspects, including: stability, durability, power consumption, noise output, etc.. and not just in the raw performance category. Raw performance just doesn't cut it these days. Here are some examples: AMD is cheaper but no I'm not dealing with heating issues anymore, GeForce4 is great in raw performance but isn't image quality just as important?, and finally PSU/heat sink fans - yeah my cheap-asian heat sink fan can cool like a mofo, but no I don't like my rig sounding like its preparing for takeoff.
I don't know about everyone else but do you sometimes feel like computers nowadays require an on-hand IT staff just handle HW issues? Not even including SW compatibility issues/crashes.
-Muaythai Pitbull
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I had the misfortune of using 4 IDE 60G DeathStars, 2 for work and 2 for home use. Within 6 months 2 of the HD failed on me! Please do not use IBM DeathStar HD especially with such a high capacity. IMHO, this issue is indicative of what is plaguing the computer industry in general, that hardware companies love to market a product by boiling down the "quality" of a product into 1 or 2 quantifiable performance measurements. i.e. PSU - wattage, processors-clock speed, HD-capacity/transfer rate. We as consumers buy into this philosophy. If a cheapy-asian component's performance in 1 or 2 categories is equivalent to a reputable brand's, but 20% cheaper, heck we'd all buy it. But what we have to start doing is evaluating products in all aspects, including: stability, durability, power consumption, noise output, etc.. and not just in the raw performance category. Raw performance just doesn't cut it these days. Here are some examples: AMD is cheaper but no I'm not dealing with heating issues anymore, GeForce4 is great in raw performance but isn't image quality just as important?, and finally PSU/heat sink fans - yeah my cheap-asian heat sink fan can cool like a mofo, but no I don't like my rig sounding like its preparing for takeoff. I don't know about everyone else but do you sometimes feel like computers nowadays require an on-hand IT staff just handle HW issues? Not even including SW compatibility issues/crashes. -Muaythai Pitbull