Western Digital: good or bad?

[andylawcc]

from your own experience...

 

[Tweakin]

From my own experience, the drives never seemed to last. I have not ran one of the newer WD's, but a friend has one and touts how it's faster then his IBM gxp!

 

[urbantechie]

There ok. I prefer Quantum or IBM though.

 

[RGN]

prefer Quantum

 

[Windogg]

Caviar = BAD
Expert = IBM = Good.

IBM and Quantum for me too!!!

Windogg

 

[penclboy]

WD = suck (well caviar line at least... had 3 drives die within a year)

I just bought a 45 GB IBM drive that I hope will change my opinion of hard drives for the better.

 

[jinsonxu]

Look at this Thread about WD harddisks.

By the way, there seem to be many people complaining that the IBM 20gigs are failing alot. Anyone can confirm?

 

[andylawcc]

aah... thread dead, concluson made.

 

[fluxquantum]

my WD works fine but man is that thing loud.

 

[mrbios]

Bad. I've had nothing but trouble with them. And they are especially noisy. But then again, I've never had a problem with a Maxtor, yet it seems alot of people do.

Russell "Mr.Bios" Sampson

 

[Mule]

In the last 10 years, I've had nothing but maxtors and never had a problem. Too bad my whopping 340MB HD that I bought in 1991 for ~$250 has no use now

 

[LXi]

IBM, Quantum/Maxtor(one company now). Never had to bother with WD and Seagate offerings.

 

[AngelOfDeath]

<< By the way, there seem to be many people complaining that the IBM 20gigs are failing alot. Anyone can confirm? >>

I've had an IBM 20Gb for ½ year now running as primary HD with no problems what so ever. So I can't confirm that . I do think though that it's a noisy HD. I bought a Diamond Maxtor 1 month ago and it's faster and doesn't produce as much noise as the IBM. So now my DM is runnning my system while the IBM is used for mp3z and gamez.

AoD

 

[wj]

I've got 3 dead WD if that tell you anything.



wj

 

[TechMaster]

I have 2 durable but noisy WD (1.2GB and 170MB), I use them as a removeable HDDs and they are still ok.

I prefer my Maxtor 7200 20.4GB

 

[CrashX]

I have been buying WD's for years. My first WD was a 300MB and have been a happy customer ever since. I am running 2 7200RPM 20GB's in RAID set now and love it. Quiet and fast. I have had to deal with their customer service before and it's been great too.

All in all, I think they are great HD's second only to IBM. And I hate Maxtor. Every Maxtor I have attempted to own has proven itself worthless in about a month.

 

[BoberFett]

My personal experience with WD has been bad. But from what I hear, WD and Maxtor's higher end IDE drives are good quality. I just stay away from their budget garbage.

 

[Fardringle]

I do in-home computer work as a side job and have seen many computers with WD drives, and have NEVER seen one in a personal computer that did not develop bad sectors within the first year!

Also, at work we just bought 100+ computers on a bulk deal, then found out that they all included WD drives. Well, after three months, nearly half of those drives have had to be replaced due to hardware failure...

In conclusion, my recommendation is to avoid buying a Western Digital under any circumstances!!

(Having said that, I have also heard from people who swear by WD drives, but I will NOT buy one!)

 

[SUOrangeman]

My Expert at home has been solid for nearly a year now. I had another, likely a Caviar, that died due to an 83 MHz FSB. I just bought a 45GB a few weeks ago (for $45, no less) and it seems to be fine as a second drive for archiving.

-SUO

 

[Noriaki]

My Western Digital hard drive has worked great for me.
I've had absolutely no problems with it so far (knock on wood )

however.....
My WD hard drive is from the Expert line, which was designed in large part by IBM...so I don't know if my experience would be indicitive of WD's own drives (Caviar)....

 

[GregMal]

I've had 4 WD's over the past 4 years and never had a problem with any of them..........Greg

 

[LordTrouble]

I have had several WD drives. Each time I got rid of one for a bigger drive. I put the old ones in my friends systems. They are all still going strong after 3-5 years. The Expert 27 gig is what I have in my system now. It has been running for almost a year and have had no problems with it. I did have one drive that went bad but was able to RMA and get a new one in less than a week.

 

[Crypticburn]

My caviar died on me, but I wised up and got an expert, it's running fine, b/c it's just an IBM drive, and they work great...

 

[Leo V]

I owned a 6.4GB WDC for ~2 years, it worked just fine. Even survived a brief period of using 41MHz PCI. Before selling it, I tested the drive with WD's utility, and found NO bad sectors.

 

[formulav8]

I have had about 3 and have not had any any problems.