I've had 2 of those same drives die on me from excessive shock (being in a machine that I moved quite often - i.e. took it to work every day for over a year). I checked the IBM warranty page and, even though they were both OEM drives, they were still both under warranty. I sent them in and got two replacements that work great.

I have a 20gb Travelstar in this machine (my laptop) which I got second-hand from a friend for $20. It's working so far, but it's starting to develop bad sectors. He said it was banged around quite badly in the laptop it came from (it was dropped from about 4 feet while turned on). So, I'm about to RMA this one as well, as it is also still under warranty.