my 250 GB western digital HD appears dead after 5 months....

[theGlove]

well it all started when Win 2k crashed, had to reformat the HD, it hung about 55% but now it won't even boot up.
Western digital used to be reliabe but I'm having second thoughts

 

[Nitemare]

When was Western Digital ever reliable?

Next time get a Seagate or a Samsung

 

[RagingBITCH]

Every WD drive I've owned has failed on me. I'm on my 2nd 120GB WD for my XBox now. (Only bought it b/c they had a killer deal on it) Guess I see why now.

And just FYI, everyone has problems with particular brands. There's no one "uber reliable" brand really.

 

[rh71]

I've had good luck with many WD drives and even the Maxtor drive I'm using now. I did RMA a WD 40GB drive for a new one a couple years back that's still going strong on this machine.

I personally don't feel any of the top 3 are any worse than each other...

 

[So]

Never had a problem w/ the two ro three WD drive's I've owned, actually, I've (crosses fingers) only had one drive die on me...an old Toshiba Laptop drive, IIRC. I had a maxtor drive that was...iffy, and I took it out of service, but it didn't actually lose any data.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

shlt happens, wrong forum

 

[0roo0roo]

russian roullete. every kind of drive has a chance of dying.

 

[lokiju]

One of my Seagate 120 GB SATA drives is dying, there goes my pron collection!


I'm doing a surface scan on it now to see if theres any way to salvage any of the goodies.

I hate it when a drive dies!


BTW I've had this drive for about 2.5 years now.

 

[Horus]

I've had no problems with my 80gb WD drive, and I've abused that one like mad..

IDE, to USB, back to IDE, to SATA Dongle, to USB to IDE again...

 

[CRXican]

I've had a WD 120gig going strong for over a year now so I can't complain yet. That system was built in Feb 2004 so I haven't had any really long term hard drives yet.

In my second system I have a Hitachi SATA drive. My 200gig backup drive that is in an external enclosure is a Seagate. I've got quite a variety and it should be interesting to see which one gives me problems first, if ever.

 

[FoBoT]

RMA it

/thread

 

[radioouman]

I've used Western Digitals for years. IBM and WD are the only drives I will install for people. THe ones that fail seemed to be between 6.4 gig and 15 gig.

 

[onza]

DEATHSTARS

 

[akubi]

5 months, so well within warranty period.
call them up!

 

[Leper Messiah]

IBM not WD.

 

[theGlove]

well i went ahead and got a 300gb from newegg for $130 after 30 rebate. hope this one is ok. Going to RMA the 250 gb one.

 

[amol]

1. Seagate
2. Samsung
3. Maxtor

that's my personal preference anyway ...

 

[FreshPrince]

we've had 3 maxtors go out in a short period of time, so maxtor is at the end of the list for me.

WD is actually a very stable experience, so is seagate.

 

[Sphexi]

Originally posted by: Nitemare
When was Western Digital ever reliable?

Next time get a Seagate or a Samsung

:thumbsup:

I have two Samsung 110GB SATA in a RAID0 array, and a Seagate 250GB SATA for data

 

[Crucial]

over 100 computers built for customers all using WD HD's and only 1 dead after 2 years. Epox MB's are a different story. 5 of them have died so far due to bad capacitors.

 

[Crucial]

Originally posted by: blazert40
One of my Seagate 120 GB SATA drives is dying, there goes my pron collection!


I'm doing a surface scan on it now to see if theres any way to salvage any of the goodies.

I hate it when a drive dies!


BTW I've had this drive for about 2.5 years now.

Stick it in the freezer for 8 hours and quick back it up. I run mine in a cooler of ice when I have problems but the freezer will work just fine.

 

[sniperruff]

Originally posted by: rh71


I personally don't feel any of the top 3 are any worse than each other...

pretty much. from my experience WD drives are quieter than maxtor's

 

[simms]

S-S-S-S-SEAGATE!!!

I just sent off a Maxtor to the Data Recovery labs today, $500 to recover the data.

 

[Crucial]

Originally posted by: simms
S-S-S-S-SEAGATE!!!

I just sent off a Maxtor to the Data Recovery labs today, $500 to recover the data.

Thats pretty cheap. Whered you send it?

 

[0roo0roo]

half terabyte soon http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/8415

begging for raid mirroring...imagine 500gb going poof!