what is the difference between the 120gxp and the 60gxp? is there a performance/reliability difference or is one just a newer model and there is really no difference?
 
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The main difference that kept me from upgrading from my 60GXP is the fact
that IBM recommends you only run the 120GXP for 8 hours a day or 333 hours a month.
 
 
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Why is IBM scaring off their potential customers?  
 
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Who knows but it is in the specs of the 120GXP at their site.
333 hours per month. Very sad.
 
 
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Agreed, IBM is sure going to be losing a lot of sales this way.  
 
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They lost mine. I was going to buy the 120gig 120GXP to update my (still working) 60GXP,
but I bought the WD 1200BB instead.
 
 
 
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Nice, I'd love to see a Sandra benchmark on that drive.  
 
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Sandra 2002 = 29705. Asus A7V266-E, XP 1800+.
The 60GXP = 24556.  
 
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That is using the VIA drivers that come with WinXP.
Haven't installed newer VIA drivers because these are stable and work just fine.
 
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Nice! That's nearly RAID performance! That's some performance out of a single drive!  
 
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The seek time reported is a little slower than the 60GXP but in real use you
can't tell it. It is a little louder than the IBM or maybe just a different
sound, can't tell. I like it.
 
 
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Ahem...
 
Sandra 2002 PII GHz, Abit BX133-R, 2 x 60GXPs RAID 0.
 
42016.
 
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hehe, well, low-end RAID at least. I believe 2 30GB ATA66 hard drives score just over 30000.  
 
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Sandra 2002 puts 2 x ATA100s, 7200rpm RAID 0 at 36300. So I'm fairly pleased.
 
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You should be more than pleased! That's great!
 
 
 
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ok, so IBM says their 120gxp shouldn't be ran for more than 8 hours a day. does that mean that the 60gxp or other brands(western digital, maxtor) are more reliable or does that just mean that those other brands didn't put their sugestions in writing.
 
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I ran another one after a clean up & defrag and got...can't remember. I took a screendump, but I'm in college right now. LoL.
 
It was something like 427**. Yep, I'm chuffed!
 
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I believe it means other brands haven't been hit with a class action.
 
 
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I run all five of my Maxtor Drives 24hours a day 7days a week!  I have a 53073H6, 3-5T030H3, and a 5T060H6. They have been running that way for close to a year an a half.
 
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How do you prevent your system memory from becoming bogged down in TSRs etc.
 
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