My first 75GXP 75 giger died on me after about 6 months. The RMA 75GXP I got died on me after 3 months. IBM claims its a software problem, ie., Operating System. Specifically the old Cache Write Delay problem that surfaced in Win98. This is absolute BS!!! I can see losing data this way but not physically destroying the hard drive. I've decided to bite the bullet and use my 75GXP as a paperweight

It is not just a simple cooling problem at all in my opinion. If it is a cooling problem, then the cooling must have to be unrealisitically good; I have had many of these drives fail in box's where drives of other manufacturers have been fine. Now.. These drives have failed in big towers such as my antec 1030 complete with 2 intake 80mm and 2 outake 80mm fans, with a system temp average of only about 25C, and a max of 30C in full summer. If it is cooling problem, then the only realistic way of getting them cooler, for example in my case, would be to use an extravagent water cooling system - totally unecessary. Keep away from IBM (international bullshit machines) hdd's - never knowingly last longer than 6 months without developing problems. Some will say it's a power issue, i say NO. I have had these fail in box's with not much hardware, a 400W PSU, and APC UPS backing them up!

my 45GB 75GXP died on me after about 6 months use also. I got a 60GB 60GXP which so far seems fine. Before the 75GXP drive died I started getting lots of sector errors and often when doing a coldstart I would get a message saying not found hard drive. I put up with that for over 3 months as I was never sure if it was a Bios error on the motherboard. It always found the HD on 2nd Coldstart. I used IBM's Bios tool to put the 60GXP drive into quiet mode which does slow down the seek a tiny amount but hopefully will reduce the likelyhood of failing again.

i've had my 46gb 75gxp from the day they came out. no problems unless you consider user error:D

My two 75GXP drives died after ~3 months each. Now I use the third one, refurbished by IBM. It still makes these horrible sounds when tested by Drive Fitness test, but surprisingly - it works! No problems for 4 months. Yet. ;-)

I have IBM 20GB, 34GB and 2x 75GB. *ALL* died in 5 to 17 months! But *NOT* due temperature!!! All have big fans on it. It's simply big shit from IBM (with big noise!!!). Therefore IBM never more! My last HDD is WD120GB with 8MB cache and it is primarily "balm" for my eyes!

I lubed up my IBM 60gxp and fisted myself silly with it!

hm... i just killed my dtla 307045... half an hour after reading this article... in 14 days it would have become 1year old... fu but my other 2 dtla 305040 run very well on a fasttrack tx2 raid controller i think, i'm gonna try wd oder barracudas now :D