[hypercube33]

Wow it's been a minute since someone talked about the IBM "deathstar" drives. I remember building a PC and dumping my last money into a hard drive - ended up with a maxtor but envied the benchmarks of those IBMs. They later started failing in droves.

[tracker1]

Yeah... it was crazy fast for the time, but when you lose, you lose. Not nearly as bad as the 3TB Seagate enterprise drives I had in an 8 drive array... 6 of the 8 failed days after the relatively short warranty. I've had exceedingly good luck with all the ssd/nvme drives I've used though.