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I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing.
What is your drive brand name of choice? |
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On 20/03/2010 23:27, Metspitzer wrote:
I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing. What is your drive brand name of choice? Not had a problem with WD. They've a 3 year guarantee so send them back to them. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally. |
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On 21/03/2010 7:27 AM, Metspitzer wrote:
I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing. What is your drive brand name of choice? WD and Samsung -- spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor and literally save someone's life: http://www.abmdr.org.au/ http://www.marrow.org/ |
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Metspitzer wrote:
I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing. What is your drive brand name of choice? Failing HOW? I haven't had a WD die on me in over 10 years. Poor cooling? Weak power supply? Bad RAM? Have you run WD's Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows or their self-booting Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (CD)? http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...sid=30&lang=en At least run a lookie-see on the SMART diagnostics on the drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T. http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm Other than "obvious bad" (as in banging heads,no spin, etc), I've seen more "bad drives" that were just fine; it was data corruption caused by bad RAM/poor cables/hosed OS that made folks think their drive was fubar'ed. |
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Metspitzer wrote: I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing. Do you have a large amount of WD drives, or are your WD drives on avera older than your other drives? Because I can't find reliable information that says any brands or current models have been less reliable than average, except for the Seagate 7200.11, which suffered from badly designed firmware that's since been fixed. What is your drive brand name of choice? I buy whatever is on sale and is brand new. I avoid "recertified" drives because warranties are often short (90-365 days), and Seagate and WD said they reset the SMART data that indicates how many hours the HD had been run and how many bad sectors cropped up in use. Also if the drive is for an old computer that has trouble recognizing 300GB/ s SATA drives, I get a Seagate or WD because their drives can be slowed to 150GB/s max. using a jumper, rather than needing a program to do this, as do Samsung and Hitachi. |
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On 3/20/2010 7:27 PM, Metspitzer wrote:
I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing. What is your drive brand name of choice? I like Seagate, but WD is not bad. |
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"Metspitzer" wrote in message ... I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing. What is your drive brand name of choice? Maxtor now Seagate and WD. My pre Seagate Maxtor's are over 10 years old...well over. Had a Fuji fail in my laptop at 2 1/2 years. |
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Metspitzer wrote:
I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing. What is your drive brand name of choice? Just about all my White Label drives have failed. I also had a WD fail with 500 gig of good stuff on it. I like Hitachi and Samsung now. -- LSMFT Drive slower than the posted speed............................. And you too can become a fracking prick.............. |
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LSMFT wrote:
Metspitzer wrote: I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing. What is your drive brand name of choice? Just about all my White Label drives have failed. I also had a WD fail with 500 gig of good stuff on it. I like Hitachi and Samsung now. I think its just six of one and half a dozen of the other. I've had two Samsung 500Gb drives and two Samsung 19" LCD's fail - all in warranty. -- SteveH |
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On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:27:39 -0400, Metspitzer
wrote: I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing. What is your drive brand name of choice? I've had mostly WD and Seagate, probably about 8 of each over the past decade. The only one I've had fail was a WD external SATA that ran 24/7 connected to a DVR. WD replaced it under warranty. I have two Seagate Freeagent Pro 1 TB drives also running 24/7 with DVRs for 1 and 2 years respectively, and so far no problems. Internal 500 GB Seagates have been problem-free, as have WD PATA drives of various sizes. These days I would be confident buying any major brand drive. I recently bought a 1 TB Hitachi and a bit later a 1 TB Seagate... because each was on sale at the time I needed the drive. The Hitachi is in my computer and the Seagate installed "inside" the DVR. -- Charlie Hoffpauir Everything is what it is because it got that way....D'Arcy Thompson |
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