WD 750GB Black failing, need new drive recommendation for immediate replacement!

[Ike0069]

750GB WD Black purchased Sep 2011.

Multiple utilites reporting errors so I plan to purchase a new drive today and looking for recommendations. I will go with a 750 or 1TB drive.

Seagate drives are cheaper, but I've always been a WD guy. This is the first premature WD drive failure I've had but the Blacks seems to have more problems than most (but is that because there are more in use?).

 

[Zap]

They have 5 year warranties. Just sayin'.

 

[Ike0069]

Yea, just realized they cross-ship the Blacks.

Called WD support and was on the phone for < 3 minutes and have a new drive coming. A++ for WD support.

However, nervous about HDD crashing before new drive arrives. Also nervous about the failure rates of WD Blacks.

 

[imagoon]

Backups. Blacks are not any more failure prone than any other drive out there atm. I have several the are approaching 4 years old now.

 

[Ike0069]

Backups. Blacks are not any more failure prone than any other drive out there atm. I have several the are approaching 4 years old now.

Everything is backed up, so I guess I'll hold off on purchasing a new drive unless I go with an SSD for the OS.