IBM Deskstar 75GXP

The IBM Deskstar 75GXP is a line of six hard drive storage devices created by IBM, ranging in capacity from 15 to 75 GB. It became infamous around 2001 for their reportedly high failure rates and dubbed as the "Deathstar" after the galactic superweapons of the same name in the Star Wars space opera franchise.

Why it Flopped

 * 1) As said before it had a high failure rate.
 * 2) The magnetic coating will start to loosen and sprinkle off from the platters, creating dust in the hard disk array which leads to crashes over large areas of the platters.

Lawsuit
Despite failures being reported within the manufacturer warranty period of three years, Michael T. Granito, Jr., an American user of IBM's 75GXP hard drives, filed a class-action lawsuit against IBM on 16 October 2001 for defects in the product causing it to "crash", with both of the drives he'd bought having failed within a short time. IBM was found to have misled its customers about the reliability of the drives. Without admitting responsibility, they settled this lawsuit in 2005, agreeing to pay $100 to every user whose Deskstar 75GXP drives had failed. The settlement related to the following family of IBM Deskstar 75GXP HDD models: DTLA 307-015; DTLA 307-020; DTLA 307-030; DTLA 307-045; DTLA 307-060; DTLA 307-075; the Deskstar 40GV was not included in the litigation.