Are Western Digital drives reliable?
 

I has a Fujitsu 6Gb HDsix years, never had a problem with it, no bad
sectors or anything. Had my Western 80Gb 7 months and it's developing bad
sectors. Am I just unlucky to get a bad HD? Was made in Malaysia. Western
is sending me a replacement.

My experience with Western Digital is that they are very reliable and
compatible. It sounds like you either had bad luck or did something to the
drive yourself. Drives can be damaged by static electricity or moving them
while they are running or bumping them or dropping them or not having
sufficient cooling inside the case ...

"Richard" wrote in message
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I has a Fujitsu 6Gb HDsix years, never had a problem with it, no bad
sectors or anything. Had my Western 80Gb 7 months and it's developing bad
sectors. Am I just unlucky to get a bad HD? Was made in Malaysia. Western
is sending me a replacement.

My two WD 80GBs run just fine.

"Richard" wrote in message
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I has a Fujitsu 6Gb HDsix years, never had a problem with it, no bad
sectors or anything. Had my Western 80Gb 7 months and it's developing bad
sectors. Am I just unlucky to get a bad HD? Was made in Malaysia. Western
is sending me a replacement.

"Tod" wrote in message
news:r4cmc.37306$kh4.1866807@attbi_s52...
My two WD 80GBs run just fine.

"Richard" wrote in message
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I has a Fujitsu 6Gb HDsix years, never had a problem with it, no bad
sectors or anything. Had my Western 80Gb 7 months and it's developing
bad
sectors. Am I just unlucky to get a bad HD? Was made in Malaysia.
Western
is sending me a replacement.






Mine too.

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Derek

"Richard" wrote
I has a Fujitsu 6Gb HDsix years, never had a problem with it, no bad
sectors or anything. Had my Western 80Gb 7 months and it's developing bad
sectors. Am I just unlucky to get a bad HD? Was made in Malaysia. Western
is sending me a replacement.


Hi,
I use WD drives in all my builds, no problems so far and they perform great!
I got a 80mm case fans blowing cool air onto my 3 drives just in case. . .
--
Wayne ][

"Steve" wrote in message
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On Wed, 5 May 2004 20:27:08 +0100, "Richard"
wrote:

I has a Fujitsu 6Gb HDsix years, never had a problem with it, no bad
sectors or anything. Had my Western 80Gb 7 months and it's developing
bad
sectors. Am I just unlucky to get a bad HD? Was made in Malaysia.
Western
is sending me a replacement.

My WD 80GB went south, too. Endless crashes and OS freezes.
I buy Samsung now, they have a 3 year warranty :-)

I'm pretty sure my HD had a natural fault. But I do wonder about excessive
heating. I might just arrange for better cooling, one never knows if that
might have been a factor. But, my Fugitsu was bolted into the exact same
place.

On Wed, 5 May 2004 20:27:08 +0100, "Richard"
wrote:

I has a Fujitsu 6Gb HDsix years, never had a problem with it, no bad
sectors or anything. Had my Western 80Gb 7 months and it's developing bad
sectors. Am I just unlucky to get a bad HD? Was made in Malaysia. Western
is sending me a replacement.



I've had better luck with WD than Maxtor but that could simply be "the
luck of the draw". My main HDD now is a Seagate Barracuda but I also
have another PC with a WD and a second HDD on this one that is a
Maxtor. Only the Maxtor has a bad block - still usable though.

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In article , Richard wrote:
I'm pretty sure my HD had a natural fault. But I do wonder about excessive
heating. I might just arrange for better cooling, one never knows if that
might have been a factor. But, my Fugitsu was bolted into the exact same
place.

That Fujitsu was most likely a 5400-rpm drive. 7200-rpm drives (your WD is
an 800BB or 800JB, right?) throw off more heat and need more attention paid
to cooling. 10k-rpm and 15k-rpm drives need even more care in this regard.

Lately, I've used Antec cases that allow an 80-mm fan to be installed in
front of the drives. They get cool air blown over them sucked in through
the front of the case. In one system, I had three drives (a WD and two
IBMs, all 7200-rpm) installed with a fan in front of them and haven't had
any problems with them in the past couple of years.

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On Fri, 07 May 2004 20:01:43 GMT,
(Scott Alfter) wrote:

Lately, I've used Antec cases that allow an 80-mm fan to be installed in
front of the drives. They get cool air blown over them sucked in through
the front of the case. In one system, I had three drives (a WD and two
IBMs, all 7200-rpm) installed with a fan in front of them and haven't had
any problems with them in the past couple of years.

Some removable drive bays have a cooling fan built in.


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