TweakTown has posted a new article entitled IBM GXP Problems: The Truth Exposed and Possible Fixes.

For months now users of IBM manufactured hard disk drives based on the Deskstar 60GXP and 75GXP models have been experiencing substantial frequent fail rates and data loss – Recently they fell victim and suggest what the problem may be, and possible solutions and a bunch of additional information.

Let me give you an example of the cooling issue. As I mentioned earlier, I have two 60GXP 60GB drives. One is mounted permanently in a removable HDD rack, which has it’s only cooling for the drive. On the other hand, the other 60GXP 60GB drive was mounted two bays above my floppy disk drive, with no cooling for the drive. The drive without any cooling failed a month after it’s initial usage, and it wasn’t even my Master drive. The “Click of Death” sounds have been haunting me ever since the drive started failing just recently, nothing software based I could do would remedy the problem.

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