IBM 120GXP Revisited

Andrew sent us a link to an article about the IBM 120gxp controversy. This is about the fact that the drive has been declared unfit for server use, and to back that up, IBM says you should only use it for 333 hours a month. This is a good summary of the issues and worth a read.

You know when an article is good...

[rjamestaylor]

...when it manages a reference to Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as an explanatory allegory. That's cool.

Beware of the Leopard.

8 hours uptime a day!

[bbh]

Ok, I'll just tell the boss we have to shutdown the webserver every day before we go home! What a great ecommerce solution :P

bbh

First example of hardnagware?

[schwatoo]

"Unless you pay your shareware fee this harddrive will stop working after 333 hours."

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Re:So what are they good for?

[Airline_Sickness_Bag]

>If they aren't good for the server market, the 120GXP aren't good for anything- since what regular home user ever needs that much space?

Video editing.

Or Office 2003.

-asb

Unionized drives?

[PhotoGuy]

Only 8 hours a day? Next thing you know the drives will be demanding 15 minute coffee breaks twice a day, full medical and dental, three weeks vacation each year, job security, and so on.

-me

Re:Even 333hr per month is pushing it

[p3d0]

my 75GXP failed on me (ironically in the middle of my first real backup)

Clearly you earned top marks from the Alanis Morissette School of Irony.

Re:8 hours a day? Please...

[Zarquon]

I'm rather pissed off at this since I brought one of these drives a few weeks ago and it's running my desktop machine, which is on 25/7... it's OK so far but it would be a pain if it dies, but since /home/ is NFS mounted it wouldn't be the end of the world.

Cool.. I always wanted to go to a planet with a longer rotational period. Can I come visit?

Isn't it ironic...

[Anonymous Coward]

...that a news site for VIA stuff has a problem with things that aren't built well enough for server use...

Pixie dust my ass

[ryanvm]

I guess that pixie dust [slashdot.org] IBM uses isn't so magical after all.