IBM 07N8169 IBM 7200 RPM 40 GB Hard Drive

This hard drive is simply put "Very Good." I am an Information Systems Manager at a Large Medical Group in Calif and have been using Western Digital due to company standards. When I was granted the responsibility for buying tech items, I decided to try the Deskstar lineup and they live up to the name IBM. I personally use a IBM Deskstar 10 Gig in my home computer and did not encounter any problems, crashes, or failures. I also have a Deskstar in my wife's computer and 2 Deskstar in my children's computer. Be cautious about what people say, just because you have a crash doesn't mean its the hard drive's fault. It can be the users fault for hardware crashes (ie programs and Drivers). Only reason I did not give 5 stars was due to the fact that the Deskstar lineup have a weak hard drive casing. Which means you have to becareful when installing the hard drive into the case. Other than that I think IBM Deskstar is one of the best.

I bought one of these a year ago in Germany... I was very happy to have an IBM hard drive although they were made in Hungary... It was working well until a month ago when bad sectors started to corrupting my data... As I live in Argentina, IBM will not change the defective hard drive...

I've had many computers and many drives, but this is the first hard drive I've had that just inexplicably crashed on me. I turned on my computer, it started making loud grinding noises, and goodbye data. After reading other reviews, it's obvious that I'm not the only one to experience this from an IBM drive. I'll never buy an IBM hard drive again.