Mike Magee, voormalig werknemer van The Register en nu werkzaam voor zijn eigen publicatie The Inquirer, schrijft dat een bezoeker van Storage Review op de CeBIT stand van IBM is verteld dat IBM bekend is met de betrouwbaarheids problemen van de DTLA serie. Volgens een IBM woordvoerder worden de problemen veroorzaakt door de IDE controllers en niet door de schijven zelf. Dit lijkt een nogal slap excuus aangezien de problemen bij vrijwel alle controllers zijn gesignaleerd. De productie van de DTLA serie - of in ieder geval de 45GB versie - zou inmiddels zijn stopgezet:
I talked to a person from the Desktop – department and he told me that IBM knows about the faulty drives and therefore they stopped production of the DTLA-Series. (or only the 45gig one ? – this remained a bit unclear but I think he talked about the entire series)
According to him they know that a large number of customers has problems with the drive and they say it is due to controllers, not their disks! He told me that the disks are fine (!) and that they work flawlessly in Computers from IBM (*LOL*). He asked me if I bought the drive from IBM directly and I told him that that I bought it from an ordinary dealer – like the most if not all people in this forum. From IBMs perspective is EVERY drive not bought from IBM directly OEM stuff and they don’t care for, I should contact my dealer for a warranty return (presumably getting back a DTLA – yeah!).
So the point is: Every Drive bought from a dealer is OEM, they know they are crap and don’t care for.
By the way the “certain controllers” which don’t work with the DTLa-Series are in my experience the following ones (I had all of them together with a DTLA drive and the Drives failed): AMD 751, VIA KT 133a, Promise DMA 100, Intel BX.
That should be about 80% of controllers out there, right? I wonder what controllers are used in IBM Aptiva’s. That tells me only one thing: The story with controllers is a excuse and the drives are really crap.
Thanks Glottis voor de tip.