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.