A big FU to Western Digital....

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Rogodin2
Goosemaster

Go to WD's site and pop in the serial number from your drive-you'll get an RMA for a new drive. I've RMA's 6 drives in the past 6 months

Rogo

yeah....just a pain to take the server down....I'll get to it eventually.

 

[Captante]

I've had exactly 4 Western Digital HD's fail on me & all of them were the same model-run of 120gb ATA-100's from maybe 3 years ago ... this makes them the second least reliable drive I've used (behind Samsung which I'll never touch again) but considering I've used approx 100 WD drives over the years I'd say thats a pretty good percentage.

The best drives in my experience have been Seagate ... I've used more of theirs then WD's & literally the first one I've had a problem with was today when a week-old 320gb 7200.10 SATA drive started making intermittant sounds like a marble bouncing around inside a soda can! :Q

Bottom line however is that every HD has a 100% failure-rate so backups are key.

 

[mercanucaribe]

I've had two WDs fail.. one was a replacement for the first. Also had a Hitachi die. Only Seagate has been 100% reliable for me.