Bought two Western Digital, 7200RPM 80GB and 120GB, absolutely HATE it.
The 80GB one, have cracking sound since the very beginning. Each time, I open a window or a browser, it has the cracking sound like hell. Called WD support, said that it was the harddrive arm touching the inner side of the hard drive enclosure, blah, blah, totally BS. Cracking hard drive never last long. Fortunately, it is still within 30 days of my purchase from BestBuy. Returned and exchanged one. Unfortunately, this one doesn't even work at all. I couldn't detect it from my BIOS at all. Returned to Bestbuy for testing, the manager managed to make it work, but only in slave mode. Neither master nor Cable select works. Have to exchange it again. This time I asked the sales to NOT demagnitize the security tab in the hard drive box. Now it seems okay, for now.
The 120 GB one, started to have bad sectors in the first seven days I purchased it from BB. Windows XP reported hardware failure, scandisk reported error at the booting session. DOS boot, Reformat it, start bad sector recording at the beginning of the formating. Just returned and exchanged another one from BB, still formating it.
Overall, I have been very unsatisfied with the Western Digital harddrive.
Comparingly, I bought three Maxtor 7200 RPM 40GB last year, two Diamond max 60, one D740x. Quiet and fast, never give me trouble, love it.
The 80GB one, have cracking sound since the very beginning. Each time, I open a window or a browser, it has the cracking sound like hell. Called WD support, said that it was the harddrive arm touching the inner side of the hard drive enclosure, blah, blah, totally BS. Cracking hard drive never last long. Fortunately, it is still within 30 days of my purchase from BestBuy. Returned and exchanged one. Unfortunately, this one doesn't even work at all. I couldn't detect it from my BIOS at all. Returned to Bestbuy for testing, the manager managed to make it work, but only in slave mode. Neither master nor Cable select works. Have to exchange it again. This time I asked the sales to NOT demagnitize the security tab in the hard drive box. Now it seems okay, for now.
The 120 GB one, started to have bad sectors in the first seven days I purchased it from BB. Windows XP reported hardware failure, scandisk reported error at the booting session. DOS boot, Reformat it, start bad sector recording at the beginning of the formating. Just returned and exchanged another one from BB, still formating it.
Overall, I have been very unsatisfied with the Western Digital harddrive.
Comparingly, I bought three Maxtor 7200 RPM 40GB last year, two Diamond max 60, one D740x. Quiet and fast, never give me trouble, love it.