refurb 30GB HD for $40

[VirtualLarry]

Bored of that tired, same-old, peace and quiet you get from your modern quiet, reliable HDs?

Wish your data-storage life was a little more "exciting"? Well, now you can, courtesy of Computer Geeks.

For those that want to re-live the excitement, or simply missed out the first time, now returning for an encore performance of death-defying data-storage acrobatics - may I present to you, the IBM Deathstar 30GB.

This performance is for a limited time only! Watch and listen, as your data nearly misses certain death. Enjoy the thrills as every shutdown could be the last!

"IBM Deathstar. For the ultimate data-storage thrillseeker. (tm)"

Do you dare accept the challange?

Refurbished, with a 90 day warranty.

As seen on TV, with one single payment of $39.99.

In case of sudden unrecoverable failure, panic. Adult diapers and/or box of tissues not included.

 

[dboy]

Heh... my 40gig 60GXP died a couple weeks ago - it had 10 days left in the warranty, so I've got a new drive coming

 

[RobCur]

hd is all about gb not the tin can itself :\
39.95 for 30gb imho is a ripoff.
since u can basically get 160gb for 80, 200 for 108 plus its much faster and you dont have to deal with defects and who knows that refurbish may not even work at all.

 

[WT]

How tall must I be to ride the Deathstar ride ??

I'd like to at least add a cursory thank you to the OP, but I'm afraid he may have been an IBM hard drive owner and I don't want to bring back any more bad memories.

 

[CheetahMk2]

Oh god just make it go away! ~_~

 

[Chebago]

My ibm HD died within the year oem warranty and ibm told me that they sold everything to hitachi and I need to take it up with them because my scsi drive wasn't one of the ones listed as serviced by ibm. I called Hitachi and they told me that they didn't buy the responsibility of fixing that particular drive. I probably could have made a big enough deal to get it back but instead I just swore never to buy ibm or hitachi again.

 

[gba]

My Ultrastar 36Z15 died just a hair after the year warranty had expired.

 

[MechxWarrior]

Is it bad when your Deathstar suddenly gives a loud grinding noise and never works again? Maybe I should replace it with one o these

 

[pcmax]

Hey, these drives made backup a household name, or lack thereof.

 

[batmanuel]

Grab two and RAID-0 them to double your thrills.

 

[RobCur]

Originally posted by: MechxWarrior
Is it bad when your Deathstar suddenly gives a loud grinding noise and never works again? Maybe I should replace it with one o these

my maxtor 1.6gb is still functional but so slow

 

[BigLan]

It's an IBM 60GXP, the original deathstar was the 75GXP. This series did have some reliability issues, but not nearly as many as the 75 series did.

dboy - my drive died last month (2 months before the warranty expired), and I got a refurb 60gxp, not a new drive. It's only being used as a temp storage drive now though.

 

[RedShirt]

Oh man.. My first DeathStar took 5 years off my life...

Buyer beware. You will constantly be nervous working with your computer.

It's not a question of if it'll break, but when.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: WT
How tall must I be to ride the Deathstar ride ??

I'd like to at least add a cursory thank you to the OP, but I'm afraid he may have been an IBM hard drive owner and I don't want to bring back any more bad memories.

That's all right. I've owned a 14.5GB 14GXP and a 30GB 75GXP, and thankfully, no data-loss due to either one of them. In fact, the 75GXP was the fastest, quietest, and coolest HD that I had ever owned, at that point in time. Mine was not built in the "bad" factory (Hungary, I think), so mine lasted quite a while. I think I owned it for over two years, before it once gave me the "75GXP click-of-death". At which point, I managed to get everything working by running the HD upside-down (an idea that a friend swore by - well, it worked!), and getting my data off of it (I had backups too, from a month or so back). I wiped the drive using HDTach and IBM DFT while upside-down, and then it seemed to work fine again for a month afterwards, and then I sold it, while still in warranty.

As far as actual data-storage deals go, this one is probably lukewarm at best, but think of the excitement! (Don't forget to buy four of them and stripe them on a Promise Ultra66, while running W2K without an updated DISK.SYS driver, and use APM/ACPI power-off shutdown often.)

PS. My 75GXP lasted longer, and IMHO was built better, than the 60GB Maxtor DM+9 FDB drive that replaced it - it lasted less than six months before self-destructing.

 

[MTherapist]

My 1st modding system I built I used 2 Deathstars in raid! Can you say double trouble? That didn't last long. My 1st died with years worth of family pictures I had transfered to it and half of my wife's buisiness paper work. The second is starting to do the bump n grind now. Found out that data retrieval from a dead drive goes from $900 to $2700! No wonder IBM is out of the drive buisiness now.:disgust:

 

[Scrounger]

If these die in the warranty period, save yourself some trouble and just can it. All they are going to send you is some other poor bastard's drive that was RMA'd then "refurbished". Evidently none of the firmware fixes or whatever made a bit of difference on the 75GXP pair that I returned twice (that's two bought OEM, and four refurbs). All failed in a similar fashion (regardless which factory of origin) except the last one which was DOA. At this point I realized my time was worth more than this POS and I owed it to my fellow humans to not put these paperweights back into the "servicable used part" pool.

 

[Mucker]

Thanks Larry! I just oredered 5...this is a SMOKIN HOT deal!

 

[sparkyclarky]

My 75GXP 30 GB took a poop in under 2 years. But it was a good drive until then. It's the only desktop HD I've had die.

 

[RobCur]

Originally posted by: Mucker
Thanks Larry! I just oredered 5...this is a SMOKIN HOT deal!

ordered 5?! LOL, 5 x 40 = 200 bucks! 200gb..
are you building 5 pc? cause that all its good for but hell it maybe just temporary. dude you're nuts
btw,GEEK is charging too much and this is refurbish! 120gb cost 72 bucks, this does not make economic sense to buy 30 gb for 40 :\

 

[Mucker]

OMG! I've been had!!!! Whatever will I do Rob??????

 

[oddjob303]

Yeah my 75gxp died like two years after I got it. My 60gxp lasted about the same amount time. I never dealed with IBM's RMA process but have dealt w/ maxtors.

Both my max plus 9s 80gb died...one did two days ago, but what is really cool is when I RMA'd the first about a year ago I got a 120GB version instead of my puny 80(the 120 is runnin strong). The second one I just RMA'd just recently and I'm fairly sure I am out of warranty but it seems like its going to get replaced. Right now I love maxtor for providing some nice service. Although those two 80's didn't seem to last too long. Still in love though =D

 

[Colrenea]

Originally posted by: RobCur
hd is all about gb not the tin can itself :\
39.95 for 30gb imho is a ripoff.
since u can basically get 160gb for 80, 200 for 108 plus its much faster and you dont have to deal with defects and who knows that refurbish may not even work at all.

It's always amazing to me how, no matter how obvious someone makes it, sarcasm almost never works on the internet.

 

[mindblendeR]

Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
That's all right. I've owned a 14.5GB 14GXP and a 30GB 75GXP, and thankfully, no data-loss due to either one of them. In fact, the 75GXP was the fastest, quietest, and coolest HD that I had ever owned, at that point in time. Mine was not built in the "bad" factory (Hungary, I think), so mine lasted quite a while. I think I owned it for over two years, before it once gave me the "75GXP click-of-death". At which point, I managed to get everything working by running the HD upside-down (an idea that a friend swore by - well, it worked!), and getting my data off of it (I had backups too, from a month or so back). I wiped the drive using HDTach and IBM DFT while upside-down, and then it seemed to work fine again for a month afterwards, and then I sold it, while still in warranty.

As far as actual data-storage deals go, this one is probably lukewarm at best, but think of the excitement! (Don't forget to buy four of them and stripe them on a Promise Ultra66, while running W2K without an updated DISK.SYS driver, and use APM/ACPI power-off shutdown often.)

PS. My 75GXP lasted longer, and IMHO was built better, than the 60GB Maxtor DM+9 FDB drive that replaced it - it lasted less than six months before self-destructing.

Let me guess... you're also the 10th dentist who always answers "no" to Crest/Colgate surveys???!

 

[dragonlord2112]

Oh man, I do not miss these drives. Two 60GXPs I had begun the click of death (Dells if I recall before Dell dumped IBM) when I went to reinstall the OS on them. Thanx for the memories OP.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: Mucker
OMG! I've been had!!!! Whatever will I do Rob??????

May I suggest this?