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May 5th 04, 08:27 PM
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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. 
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May 5th 04, 09:02 PM
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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 ... 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.
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May 5th 04, 09:24 PM
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My two WD 80GBs run just fine.
"Richard" wrote in message ... 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.
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May 5th 04, 10:25 PM
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"Tod" wrote in message
news:r4cmc.37306$kh4.1866807@attbi_s52... My two WD 80GBs run just fine. "Richard" wrote in message ... 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. -- Derek
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May 6th 04, 12:11 AM
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"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 ][
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#6
May 7th 04, 07:14 PM
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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. 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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