The IBM DeskStar hard disk I put in my Sky Plus box on Saturday has died (re: Sky Plus Repairs). It has gone into infinite recalibrate mode. I think this confirms the poor reputation of DeskStar hard disks and it does not surprise me that IBM got out of the hard disk market.
In my recollection I have bought three IBM products in my life:
DeskStar hard disk
A reconditioned ThinkPad (the butterfly keyboard kind) that spontaneously switches itself off (even when powered from the mains)
A copy of OS/2. I found it slow and buggy and I went back to windows 3.1.
I'm sure this is just bad luck and many customers are happy with their fine products. I just hope they don't mess too much with linux.
Peter's Moblog
