On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 01:37:28 GMT, garymNOSPAM@attbi.com wrote:
>d_ruether@hotmail.com (Neuman - Ruether) wrote:

>>I've been using a pair of 45gig 75GXPs since they came out
>>in an editing computer that runs about 14 hours every day,
>>without problems...

>Clearly they're not all bad, and I shouldn't have been such a wise
>guy to the last person, I apologize. The fact remains that they
>do suffer an unusually large percentage of failures and warrant
>extra caution. I've now had all four of the original drives fail
>- confirmed by IBM's fitness test.
>
>They seem to follow a pattern of making this goofy chirping sound,
>followed by either a partial, or complete failure. For me, what
>made it most exasperating was that I wasn't really aware of what
>the problem was. I kept getting these strange failures in
>Premiere that would blow out the program. All of a sudden,
>usually half way through the program, the program would stop
>working, the PC would make this strange repetitive noise, and
>then it would just sit there. How was I to know it was the hard
>drive? When I think back, I realize that there were a lot of
>system problems that were caused by the drive, and I just couldn't
>figure out what the problem was.
>
>I posted this information in an attempt to help someone that might
>be having a similar problem, not to start a war.
>Gary M

Thanks. We appreciate the info, and the recording (I
***WILL*** be listening for that sound...!!! ;-).
Those of us with good experience with the drives (uh,
so far...;-) posted our contrary experience for context,
not to dispute your experience. Sometimes it does
happen on the 'net that something negative about a
product that has little basis in reality (or is the
result of an isolated defect, a bad manufacturing
run, or even user error/ignorance) becomes "knowledge",
and is difficult to place in context so that people
can make a reasonable assessment about its truth/
importance/relevance - and without that, threats of
lawsuits arise, unfounded warnings to avoid the
product, etc. follow... In other words, the 'net
engenders rumors all too easily, so reality-checks
(for both sides) are important...;-)