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watts3000

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I have a western digital caviar 7200 rpm 20 gig hard drive. I've heard bad things about how these drives are horrible can somone tell me if it is true. I useuallu use ibm and maxtor for ide drives.
 
Well, I've got the same drive, except it's a 30Gig and I've had only one problem, and that is that it refuses to run at ATA/100, but I believe that it's a mobo problem, but I've been fine with it. I'd rather get Maxtor for performance/reliability, but WD is fine too.
 
Western Digital doesn't exactly make crappy drives. I've had a 20gb 7200rpm drive for 18ish months now without a problem. It's been on 2 systems including systems running 150fsb...and it never crapped out. WD also has some nice utilities that other manufactures don't supply for support. You really shouldn't have any problems with it. Anyway; IBM, Segate, Maxtor, WD...all good drives...all worth your hard earned cash. Hehe... I also have to 60gxp ibm deskstars...which everyone seems to have problems with ( I don't know why). And 2 of them with average seak times of 8.5ms in raid0 makes for one fast IDE setup. Probably one of the fastest combos with current IDE technology.
 
Western Digitial has many different models that are available under the 'Cavier' brand at 20GB, 7200RPM. It would be completely impossible to gauge it's relative reliability without knowing what model your referring to.

About 4 years ago they had a large number of drivers with defective chips on them, and hence an extremely large numer of RMA's at that point in time. So if your drive is between 4-5 years ago it's likely to be part of that bad batch and I would put it as being of very questionable reliability, if it is between 3-4 years old it is possible it is part of that batch and I would put it's stability as questionable, or pretty much an unknown factor.
Within the last 2 years Western Digital's reputation has returned to much of it's original highly praised state, and if your drive is within 2 years old I would say it's likely very reliable indeed and most consumers are very happy with more recent WD designs.

 
Iv boughten 3 WD's in the last few years. Two of them crapped out on me, requiring RMA's. One of them (a new one) has been working fine since I bought it. Im asumming that the ones that died on me were older moddels, but I also know that Im going to be getting a maxtor HDD in my next PC.
 


<< the model is a wd200 >>



WD200BB or WD200BA?

If it's the BB you should be perfectly all right, if it's the BA it's within the 'questionable' era.
The WD200BB is a rather nice drive, it's one of the better 20GB 7200RPM drives available, and has proven it's to be a pretty reliable drive.
 


<< I just checked it is the bb do you have any reviews on the drive. >>



Not off hand, but there is an excellent review of the 400BB here, which is part of the same family of drives as yours and based off the same design, just with two platters rather then the one platter utilized on your drive in order to get the extra 20GB capacity.
Your drive would be slightly slower then the one reviewed above, but it should give a good overall picture of the relative capabilities of it.
 
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