Peter K

The disk is five years old. It has served as the main disk in a machine I
built then. It has never given me any trouble or unexplained malfunctions
and reformatting it just now, using Disk Management, all three partitions
were reported as 'healthy'.

Still, that could be the reason???

Peter K


"Don" wrote:

> Peter K wrote:
> > I have two IDE hard disks, to be used as external hard disks for backups.
> ....
> > The hard disk for the second one is an IBM Deskstar, 80 GB...
>
> Well, this may be relevant, depending on when the disk was manufactured.
> A few years back (can't recall just when) the Deskstar was dubbed the
> 'Deathstar' because they failed so often and so catastrophically.
>
> Sometime after that disaster, IBM sold its disk drive division to
> Hitachi, just to bid farewell to the whole bad experience.
>
> Since that sale to Hitachi I've had no experience with the Deskstar
> brand, so I can't offer any firsthand advice. I did notice that soon
> thereafter the Deskstar line was offered at fire-sale prices at my
> local geek store, but I resisted the temptation to bargain-hunt.
>
> I'd like some feedback from anyone who has had recent first-hand
> experience with the Hitachi/Deskstar brand.
>
>