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WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
I had my first DOA drive on Sunday in a very long time. It is a WD 6 TB external USB drive. Will not even spin up. And I bought it
from Big River back in September so I have to send it back to WD. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KU686HI/ Lynn |
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WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
On 1/3/2017 2:24 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
I had my first DOA drive on Sunday in a very long time. It is a WD 6 TB external USB drive. Will not even spin up. And I bought it from Big River back in September so I have to send it back to WD. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KU686HI/ Lynn BTW, what a pain ! And this is the fifth one of these that I have bought, no problems with the previous external drives. Lynn |
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WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
On 1/3/2017 2:32 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 1/3/2017 2:24 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: I had my first DOA drive on Sunday in a very long time. It is a WD 6 TB external USB drive. Will not even spin up. And I bought it from Big River back in September so I have to send it back to WD. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KU686HI/ Lynn BTW, what a pain ! And this is the fifth one of these that I have bought, no problems with the previous external drives. Lynn Since I need another external drive yesterday (I archived the Dec 30, 2016 external drive), I went ahead and bought my first 8 TB external drive for $220. Our LAN backup has been growing at 50 GB/month lately (I need to investigate this). I wonder if it will even be 7 TB using 1,024 bytes instead of 1,000 bytes ? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHLGC/ And why doesn’t WD have an 8 TB green drive for sale yet ? Lynn |
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WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
On 01/03/2017 04:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
I had my first DOA drive on Sunday in a very long time. It is a WD 6 TB external USB drive. Will not even spin up. And I bought it from Big River back in September so I have to send it back to WD. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KU686HI/ Lynn BTW, what a pain ! And this is the fifth one of these that I have bought, no problems with the previous external drives. Lynn Since I need another external drive yesterday (I archived the Dec 30, 2016 external drive), I went ahead and bought my first 8 TB external drive for $220. Our LAN backup has been growing at 50 GB/month lately (I need to investigate this). I wonder if it will even be 7 TB using 1,024 bytes instead of 1,000 bytes ? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHLGC/ And why doesn’t WD have an 8 TB green drive for sale yet ? I thought I had read that WD's "Green" drives were being discontinued. Perce |
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WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:26:17 -0000, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 01/03/2017 04:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote: I had my first DOA drive on Sunday in a very long time. It is a WD 6 TB external USB drive. Will not even spin up. And I bought it from Big River back in September so I have to send it back to WD. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KU686HI/ Lynn BTW, what a pain ! And this is the fifth one of these that I have bought, no problems with the previous external drives. Lynn Since I need another external drive yesterday (I archived the Dec 30, 2016 external drive), I went ahead and bought my first 8 TB external drive for $220. Our LAN backup has been growing at 50 GB/month lately (I need to investigate this). I wonder if it will even be 7 TB using 1,024 bytes instead of 1,000 bytes ? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHLGC/ And why doesn’t WD have an 8 TB green drive for sale yet ? I thought I had read that WD's "Green" drives were being discontinued. I bought 6 black drives from them, and almost all of them failed, some twice. They just overheated, all the bloody time. -- A man spoke frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart!" "Is this her first child?" the doctor asked. "No, you idiot!" the man shouted. "This is her husband!" |
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WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
On 1/3/2017 4:05 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
I bought 6 black drives from them, and almost all of them failed, some twice. They just overheated, all the bloody time. Were those externals? The solution is to buy a directional desk fan like a Vornado and aim it at the drive. I took a WD green out of its usb 2 external enclosure and put in in a usb 3 that had no vents. It would heat up, unless I used the fan, then it was good for whatever time period. -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
On 1/3/2017 12:24 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
I have to send it back to WD. They will send a refurbished! I got one from them. It has been up to 55C .. ugh. OK otherwise. -- Ed Light Better World News TV Channel: http://realnews.com Send spam to the FTC at Thanks, robots. |
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WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
I thought I had read that WD's "Green" drives were being discontinued. They have been. Blue is the new Green. The only remaining 7200rpm Blue is the 1TB model; all the others are 5400rpm. |
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WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
James Wilkinson Sword wrote:
I bought 6 black drives from them, and almost all of them failed, some twice. They just overheated, all the bloody time. Blacks run hot. They need a lot of cooling. Even some enclosures with fans aren't good enough. |
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WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
Neill Massello wrote:
James Wilkinson Sword wrote: I bought 6 black drives from them, and almost all of them failed, some twice. They just overheated, all the bloody time. Blacks run hot. They need a lot of cooling. Even some enclosures with fans aren't good enough. That is why I just buy naked HDDs even though their cables are annoying to carry. -- Quote of the Week: "The ants are my friends, they're blowin' in the wind. The ant, sir, is blowin' in the wind." --the misheard lyrics to Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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