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Storage Review has posted an IBM Deskstar 120GXP review



IBM's Deskstar series of ATA drives have been highly regarded by hardware enthusiasts for years. When StorageReview.com first launched nearly four years ago, Big Blue's Deskstar 5 and Deskstar 8 were all the rage, with the huge 7200 RPM Deskstar 14GXP just around the corner. Over SR's years, regardless of the methodologies used at any given time, the GXP series has excelled through leading the pack when it came to capacity and performance.

A stumbling block of sorts appeared with the 75GXP. Although the drive continued to deliver first-rate size and speed, an unusually large number of users complained about reliability problems with the model. A similar though lesser situation arose with the 60GXP, though its unclear whether or not users unfairly attributed mundane problems that occur to all drives (and/or all users) to the 60GXP's lineage. SR does not hold an opinion one way or another on the matter; we simply point out what we've observed.
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