{"id":187,"date":"2022-08-22T17:23:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T15:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bananahdd.nl\/?p=187"},"modified":"2025-01-02T18:37:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T17:37:17","slug":"ibm-deskstar-75gxp-dtla-307075-76-8gb-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bananahdd.nl\/index.php\/2022\/08\/22\/ibm-deskstar-75gxp-dtla-307075-76-8gb-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM Deskstar 75GXP DTLA-307075 76.8GB (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the infamous Deathstar.<\/p>\n

The Deskstar 75GXP series was a stunning blow to IBM’s hard drive division. Touting incredible performance for the period, alongside being backed by a historically admirable reliability record, the series was poised to be another market leader. However, it quickly all went wrong…<\/p>\n

IBM had utilised glass platters in several enterprise and mobile-grade hard drives, but this series would be the first to bring it to their desktop lineup. Such a change was brought in with an entirely new feature to their lineup: a parking ramp. While this feature had been seen before on hard drives throughout the 90’s (e.g. the Integral Periperals PCMCIA Viper series<\/a>), the 75GXP was the first to bring it to the mass market in the 3.5″ form factor (alongside the 5,400RPM 40GV partnering series).<\/p>\n

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  Drive Attributes<\/strong><\/em>\r\n  -------------------------------------\r\n  IBM Deskstar 75GXP DTLA-307075<\/em>\r\n  -------------------------------------\r\n  Capacity      76.8GB\r\n  Mfc Date      2001-06\r\n  Interface     PATA\r\n  Platters      5\r\n  Heads         10\r\n  RPM           7200\r\n  Protocol      Ultra-ATA\/100\r\n  -------------------------------------<\/pre>\n
So what’s the deal? Users quickly started to report mass failures, with IBM’s credibility coming into question when all concerns were dismissed by the company. Images of platters with their magnetic surfaces completely stripped away appeared, alongside high temperature reports & spontaneous drive failures which culminated to the poor reliability record this series now triumphs. IBM’s market share quickly dropped (with other external factors contributing to this decision), leading to the sale of the division to Hitachi.<\/p>\n
This is the largest capacity you could purchase back in 2001 for the 75GXP, sporting a whopping 5 platters. That’s right, a massive<\/em> 15.36GB per platter in terms of density.<\/p>\n
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A neat label design which was used for many years by IBM and then Hitachi. Everything is clear and no useful information is obfuscated.<\/p>\n
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This particular example is in perfect health, with an incredibly low reported power on hour count.<\/p>\n
There’s a standard firmware update that must be done on 75GXP’s to supposedly improve their reliability. Whether or not this has any truth is up in the air, but it’s likely that the only result would be prolonging an end-result of eventual failure.<\/p>\n
Firmware changelog:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n