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rogerbinns on Feb 16, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015

I had 4 of the 3 IBM "Deathstars" I bought fail. Yes, all 3 failed and then one of the replacements failed too.

justin66 on Feb 17, 2016 [–]

I had one fail, got a replacement, and with the replacement and its replacements continued that cycle until a new generation of drives came out, at which point I sold the stupid thing on eBay. It was unreal.

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