Well - after a lot of dicking around (MS being a little slow - probably just bad luck on my behalf, I've not heard horror stories of ineptitude or anything) I've recieved the UPS labels and the box has been picked up and is on it's way to the MS repair center. I've been told by MS the repair is totally free which was a nice surprise, let's hope I get it back soon
yay! I've got my 360 back (after UPS were dumb enough to leave it at another house with the same nmber but completely different street name) It's all lovely and I've got a fresh copy of GHII to play on it when I get the time. It was a totally free repair - and they chucked in a months free live gold card too. Not bad for a launch machine. Now of course two more friends are suffering from the red rings. Is this going to affect EVERY xbox 360 eventually?
I remember the HDDs in a particular batch of PCs (numbering in the hundreds) shipped out to various customers in 5s and 10s from my old workplace had something like a 90% failure rate over a couple of years. Every now and then for a while we'd get a PC go down and realise there was another bunch of machines around it that were about to die, it wasn't fun. If that happened to a console manufacturer... there'd be hell to pay. I guess it kind of did to Sony, with their battery recall thing.
I was trying to remember that yesterday. I'm pretty sure it was either Fujitsu or Samsung. Definitely not WD, Quantum, Maxtor, IBM. They were old 10/15GB drives, so nothing you're likely to run into today, or at least, not to use. It's shocking I can't remember, given all the hassle they caused me...
Fujitsu had a nightmare run of HDD a few years back, then IBM followed suit. I think they share technology, but don't quote me on that. I recall there being a fairly major shit storm created because of it. Toshiba also had a similar thing happen to their laptops a few years ago, though I think it was unrelated to HDD failure.
Must be samsung, cuz some time ago a lot of my company's new PCs had their HDDs broken in 1 or 2 months, and they were all samsung disks...
