IBM Hard Drive Failure?

[Samuel Liew]

Guys, I'm rather disturbed when told by my system administrator lately that most IBM hard drives used in HP Servers are faulty. Hence, we had a few hard disk crashes in RAID 5 involving IBM hard disk. I find this hard to believe as IBM is one of the top hardware manufacturers. Anybody aware of this? Please help. Thanks

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[Ronnie Soderquist]

It actually depends on the hard drives firmware. I have used IBM drives in many HP 9000 servers and workstations with no problems, even RAIDed.

[S.K. Chan]

If those hard drives are originally purchased (comes with the server) from HP, you should find out from HP why only IBM disks are crashing. Sometimes it could be that batch of disks are "badly manufacture" and if that is the case there should be a recall notice from HP to get those drives replaced. I've had such experience before (not IBM disks) and HP CE would come on site, check all my disks (from the range of part numbers) and they would know if they need to be replaced or not.