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I will NEVER buy anything from Western Digital again

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I am pissed, very pissed let me say.

This is my 2nd drive from WD, the first one screwed up too, kept clicking and then wouldn't load Windows even after format.

Now, about 2 months after a replacement drive from the, SAME DAMN thing happens. I started up CSS about 10 minutes ago, right when it was about to load the map, random restart, and now it won't load windows, just stays at a black screen after the logo.

I am NEVER going to buy from them again, they have the worst hard drives I've ever experienced.

I am mad and now my stupid PC won't work.
 
I had that happen to my mother in law's WD - when she was describing it over the phone I thought that her mobo or PSU had gone.
 
Pwnd?

What are the models of those two drives? Is your current drive the same model as the first?

Personally, I've never had a bad experience with WD drives. Maxtor... well that's another story.

 
I've had a couple WD drives fail at work, but never one of my personal drives. The only drives I really ever had a problem out of were the horrible IBM DeathStars <shudder>

In Seagate I trust. 🙂
 
Omg the old Deathstars! We had some laptops that came form the same bad batch of deathstars. They all died within 1 month of each other!

I have had many WD drives and never had one fail on me. *knock on wood*
 
WTF! That happened to me earlier today....It will restart randomly and then stay on a black screen for a bit after reboot. I usually pound on keyboard/click my mouse like crazy until it comes on.

I did not realize that this was my HD...its a 10k RPM Raptor. 🙁
 
seagate never have problems seems like it

western digitals only 2 dead from them

maxtor 1 that tells me everytime to replace hard drive failure is imminent eh it just wont do long format only quick format......

seagate after 2 yrs still going...
 
I've had Seagate, WD, IBM, Samsung, and Maxtor all fail. The infamous DeathStar's were the worst by far. GrammatonJP is 100% correct - anything with moving parts can and will fail at some point.
 
Unfortunatly harware problems tend to come in batches, so if you return a HD as DOA the odds are you're going to get one from the same batch, so it'll die in the same way.

I've never lost a HD yet, maxtor, IBM (deathstar), seagate, samsung or WD. It'll happen eventually but so far...
 
We've had a few of the Samsung SpinPoint drives go also...however, considering we have several hundred PCs out there and nearly 1k users there are going to be some isolated failures. But man I've never seen anything like those freakin' Maxtors. I've owned 2 or 3 Maxtor drives and have been lucky, but almost every single Maxtor that we have at work has taken a crap and eventually fails to boot. I know I won't be buying Maxtor again until they improve the reliability of their drives. It's a shame too, because the ones I've owned were quiet and decent performers (hmm, so were my DeathStar drives... 😕 )
 
Personally, I've never had a bad experience with WD drives. Maxtor... well that's another story.
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I was waiting for somebody to have a go at Maxtor lol...

FYI I have never had any problems with Maxtor or any HD brand,bottomline any brand can fail,some of us are luckier then others when it comes to HDs(regardless of brand in question) all you can do is go for one with good warranty and back up your data and hope for the best.
 
Originally posted by: Trey22

Personally, I've never had a bad experience with WD drives. Maxtor... well that's another story.
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Yep same here. I've lost 3, or 4 Maxtor drives, and just gave up. I've been buying WD since and haven't had one of them poop out on me.

I haven't had any issues with a Maxtor/Quantum drive under 30gb though, oddly enough. Have a good number of them still plunking away.
 
Sounds like bad luck.
Still don't know what models he is talking about!!

Never any probs for me except 2 Maxtor's died.
 
Seems that most manufactures go through a bad batch drives. Maxtors in here at work over the last couple years and a few Seagates and WD at home and other people's machines I've fixed and of course I had IBMs go bad(yes, the deathstars). I'm some people have had Samsung drives go bad but those are what I'm using at home for the last 2-3 years and recommending to others now.
 
I never had a WD drive(thinking about getting a Raptor 74GB for Christmas along with a X2 4600+ to replace my aging Maxtor 2mb cache 80GB drive🙁), but my brother had a WD drive, and it failed in 2 weeks of buying it, he took it back and had it replaced, and the replacement WD failed in 2 months, so then he took it back and had them give him another brand, and now he wouldn't ever recommend a WD drive.

Of course, I understand not buying a brand if their hardware keeps failing on you. I'm one of those guys who, if I buy something and it quits working, then I'll NEVER buy from that brand again, unless ABSOLUTLEY, and I mean ABSOLUTLEY necessary.

 
I'm with the OP - I will never buy WD again since every drive but 2 of them died on me, and most of them without any warning. One day comp works fine, next day the HD is barely able to crawl into windows and I barely managed to get most of my data off of it. Another one was a backup / storage drive, and it decided to get click-click happy :frown: More recently I installed vista beta on a barely used 60GB WD drive and it randomly got a million bad sectors, the thing wouldn't even boot up anymore.

A cousin of a friend of mine bought a couple 250GB WD drives he put in RAID1. Few weeks later, one died. He sent it in and got a replacement. Few months later the other died. Sent that one in. Few months later the replacement for the first one died AGAIN. All three times it was very sudden, worked one moment and crashed the next.

I use seagate or samsung drives, never had any of them die on me. I've owned several samsungs, my grandparents are running my old 40GB samsung in their computer that UPS played football with - twisted the case, broke parts off the graphics card, knocked the ram out of the slots... yes it was properly packed 😉 That drive still runs like a champ.
 
Never had a problem with any WD drives. Had a Maxtor die on me. I had a 7200.7(8?) Seagate that ran VERY hot. Currently running 4x400GB Hitachi SATA drives in a 24/7 RAID 5 setup. We'll see how long those last!
 
All drive mfg's will have defective drives. You could switch to <insert competitor here> and still end up with a defective drive. Check your psu with a DMM for abnormal voltages.
 
wow, if you feel that way about wds, wait until you have had the same experiences from all of them. i have had a hdd fail from every manf, it is why you have a good backup plan, because you know that one day the hdd will die. it is just a fact of computing, or any mechanical item - it will eventually fail. if you read about how hdds really work, at the extreme lower hardware levels you would be amazed how well they work anyway.
 
I'm in the all drives can fail camp. I don't really believe that one brand is better than another, although I do generally prefer WD myself. Call it personal preference.

I have an 80GB Seagate that won't work properly on a cold boot (actually, it could conceivably be a problem with the motherboard, but I think it's the drive), but otherwise exhibits no odd behavior. If I just turn the machine on I'll get a DISK READ ERROR after POST when it attempts to boot from the the HDD. If I reset the PC right after I turn it on, it'll work fine. It's a bit odd.

My other computer has a 20GB... I think it's a Maxtor. Can't remember, but it's still going. Also has a 60GB Western Digital that works fine after several years.

My brother's machine was built over a year ago with a WD, still works fine (and he NEVER turns the thing off).

My grandfather's Gateway that he got about 5 years ago is using a Maxtor. It's obnoxiously loud and very slow, but it still seems to be working fine. (A guy I used to know had a.. think it was a Dell... with an IBM drive like that. What was up with those cheap, LOUD hard drives that OEMs were using like a couple years ago?!?!?)

My father's machine is about 4 years old and his two WDs still work fine.

This machine I'm typing on now is comprised of nothing but cheap parts and is using a Maxtor which still works fine after... I think it's been about 3 or 4 years.

There have been numerous other drives around that haven't failed. I'm generally pretty lucky with that. I did have one WD die on me about 5 years ago. That's the last true heard drive failure I've had that I can recall. IIRC, it was like a 2GB drive or something like that and was quite old at that point anyway (it developed a case of the clickies).
 
My WD's have been great for the past couple of years, i did have a couple of deskstars that went to crap, but they replaced them without problems. They were fast, nice, and helpful.
 
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