Eh, Oh lord! Western Digital's incredible......

[BoberFett]

I've gone through several WD drives. Never again.

 

[bluegi]

have a 40gb wd for about 4 months now...still working.hope nothing happens

 

[LXi]

WD is crap, I dont know how many times I've said that. The only two brand people should consider is IBM and Maxtor-Quantum.

 

[emjem]

WD has been under financial stress for about 3 years already. Lost management, fired employees, moved/consolidated operations, blah, blah. Maybe that has something to do with the detioration of their quality.

 

[novice]

I have had three WD drives die on me. A pair of 2.1 gigs and a 13.6 gig that was less than a year old. I am going with Maxtor from now on. And if they give me problems, (which I doubt) I will probably have to go to IBM. And I know that anybody can make a bad hard drive, I just wonder if WD makes any good ones.:disgust:
Chuck

 

[shawn_16]

My WD 1 gig lasted for 6 years and my 8.4 gig didn't fail me before I sold it

 

[rkoenn]

I build systems and overall would call my hard drive experiences very good. I have had a few fail in less then the current 3 year warranty period but the percentage rate is pretty good. I will say that I primarily use Maxtor and, at least the last time I had to get one replaced, they were the easiest company to do it with. Just got a WD replaced and had to send it to them first. I will say that they returned the replacement with 2 day shipping. However, it took my UPS ground 8 days from Florida to California. Maxtor, as I said the last time I dealt with them at least, took my credit card number and shipped a replacement in two days. Just dropped the bad drive in the box and never saw a charge. Gives you a chance to recover data if the drive is not totally zonked. I think Seagate is better now but I got a DOA drive of theirs and was required to ship it to them before replacement. I think it took 5 or 6 weeks, inexcusable. Had a Quantum a couple of years back also that was new but very quirky. I think I had to ship to them first also but believe the turnaround was reasonable. Just my experiences and I have put in a lot of drives.

 

[BurntKooshie]

My 4.3 gb western digital drive is dying. I've had it for a year, and it was used then. It had no bad sectors, but now it is full of them. I can't run scan disk on it - when I do, my comp crashes. Even if it is run from a different drive. Yay.

 

[LordSandMan]

LXi Said it best......


<< WD is crap, I dont know how many times I've said that. The only two brand people should consider is IBM and Maxtor-Quantum. >>




The shop I used to work in 90% of the drives we replaced were WD and we never sold a WD drive, ever.



<< WD has been under financial stress for about 3 years already. Lost management, fired employees, moved/consolidated operations, blah, blah. Maybe that has something to do with the detioration of their quality. >>




Quality????? What quality???? They never had quality......

 

[LXi]

Heh... you got that right, most feedbacks on WD is negative. I really hate it when some idiot comes in and claims IBM is crap or Maxtor/Quantum is crap without any kind of sound proof.

 

[Angst]

I've had a 1gb WD from 1995, still going strong, and a 6.4 from summer 1998 (was also working flawless until an encounter with the dreaded 4.28 4in1s). But, I just bought a 46.1gb Deskstar just because of all the good things I've heard about them.

 

[jinsonxu]

Wow, nice to know that i'm not the only one with a bone to pick.....

 

[jinsonxu]

If i had the money, i'd rather throw the POS away or donate it to the junkyard. But since RMAs are free, and i'm a miserly cheapskate.....

It's getting irritating for me though, to have to get a new drive after every 6 months for 2 over years now.


WD has quality, they make the incredible series of 8.4 gigs which fail on me after 6 months exact.


It's probably a prevalent problem with one of the 8.4 gig series. I remember reading about that few years back.

 

[rommel]

try a seagate....i love mine ....have three...the new ATAlll...7200rpm ata 100..nice drives

 

[The Stigenator]

I have a 30GB Western Digital 5400 RPM drive sitting in a drive caddy. i have my backups, mp3, downloads etc etc on that. but your scaring me.

it does make much more noise reading(click click- trr) than my old 10.1gb ibm.

 

[Huma]

I had an WD 18gb expert die on me about 5 months in. They replaced it with another messed up drive, and I had to have them send out a second replacement.

I was not impressed, especially with the tech dude's insistence that the drive's inability to go to dma mode was the fault of my OS, and not the hardware.

The new drive fixed the problem.

 

[BassDominator]

Just got back two 10 gig drives for the two 8.4 WD drives that I had to RMA. Very speedy drives... beat the crap out of my 18 gig 7200 rpm WD drive. No complaints here.... just hope they last.

 

[GreenBeret]

My WD 20.5GB crapped out a couple months ago. only 1 year old. Now the replacement is making grumbling noises!

 

[novice]

I hope my replacement 13.6 gig Caviar lasts longer than the origianl one did (less than a year). But if it doesn't, at least I have one of the &quot;Staples Specials&quot; 20 gig Maxtors waiting in the wings. Although my wife thinks that the 15 gig Quantum Lct 10 will give out first. See it was in a case where the fan quit on the power supply, and it got a little toasty in there while my 9 year old son kept trying to play Half Life. After a new cable, reformat and reinstall, it seems to be working fine now. The Quantum diagnostic program said it was okay, so we shall see. My money is on the WD to fail first. It just seems to be their nature, at least where I am concerned.
Chuck