Deathstars

MikeTimbers · 25 Feb 2007 at 20:38

Well, one of my trusty old 30GB Thai-made Deathstars died today. Still have another one being used to hold absolutely non-critical stuff. Anyone else still got one of these running?

Aelred89 · 26 Feb 2007 at 21:13

I want one

May the force be with your remaining hard drive

Jokester · 26 Feb 2007 at 21:15

My 60GB Deathstar died last year, having lived about 6 glorious years.

Jokester

fumbles · 26 Feb 2007 at 21:24

Got a dying 10GB TravelStar....

rpstewart · 26 Feb 2007 at 21:50

I've got a couple of 45Gb ones, not sure if they're 60GXPs or 75GXPs. Once is going fine in my parents PC, the other is languishing in the cupboard along with all the other obsolete carp.

squiffy · 26 Feb 2007 at 21:52

Still got a working 60GB, it's in a USB2 enclosure. I find it's incredibly loud compared to newer drives, a really high pitch whine and quite a bit of seek noise.

Jokester · 26 Feb 2007 at 21:54

squiffy said:
Still got a working 60GB, it's in a USB2 enclosure. I find it's incredibly loud compared to newer drives, a really high pitch whine and quite a bit of seek noise.

When mine was seeking it sounded like a bag of spanners in a washing machine it was that loud.

Jokester

rpstewart · 26 Feb 2007 at 21:54

A bit of a seek noise??? The one thing about IBM & Hitachi disks is that you know they're doing something! I've got 8 T7K250s in RAID5 and any serious activity makes the case shake almost :eek: