What Problems have you experenced using Western Digital Hard Drives.

[Mltsao]

Recently I ordered a WD 60gig 7200rpm @ dell from hot deals.

Athough i'ved used computers with WD HDs This is my first WD drive i am using personally so i just wanted to know what to expect.

 

[GrumpyMan]

None yet. "Knocking on wood."

 

[schdaddy]

<< None yet. "Knocking on wood." >>



same here, i've had 1 IBM die on me (i'll let you guess the series:disgust: ) and 1 maxtor

 

[Paulson]

I've had a western digital 40 gig go on me (happened a little while back, drive slowed to a crawl then just died)

Just today, my 60 gig drive gave a final code error... Sucky eh?

Oh well, when they work, they're really nice drives.

 

[jaggrey]

At my school a whole bunch of them went out. You know how they spin up & click? These just kept clicking. All the computers I built used Western Digital, no probs with those yet, but now I use Maxtor.

Also I got a 40 gig for $50 from BB on Black Friday and it seems to work fine...it did that clicking for a sec though then stopped. Makes me wary.

 

[iluvdeal]

I've had a WD 25GB and just got a WD 120GB, both work fine. I use one of those hdd coolers if that matters. BTW, is there a certain time period they go bad? I'm wondering if it's one of those cases where if it doesn't break down in the first month it'll last a long time?

 

[yekat]

My WD 120 GB just went dead the other day. This is right around the first month mark, so fortunately, I was able to exchange it at BestBuy. I had problems with it since day 1. It had a hard time getting recognized by my BIOS, even though I have the most recent version. Then in Windows XP, it would only get recognized if I went into device manager and scan for hardware changes. Upon reboot, I had to do it again. Anyhow, just the other day, it went into the spinning and clicking thing and it was all over. Lost some valuable data.


Yekat

 

[LuckyTaxi]

my 15 gig just went dead. i was so pissed cuz i was going to use it as a slave on my *NIX box

 

[CraigRT]

Almost Zero problems considering how many PC's I know are around with WD drives (at least in my case)

the only problems I've had was with a 310200 10.2GB drive that failed, had all the clicking and crap.. not a huge deal. crap happens, other than that, haven't heard of too many problems, I like Maxtor and Fujitsu more, overall..

 

[Colt45]

no probs here

 

[dbwillis]

No problems here, 200BB and a 800BB

 

[novice]

FWIW, I have had 3 die on me. The two that were replaced under warranty are still going, and both of the "refurb" replacements have lasted longer than the "new retail" versions that died. I only use Maxtor now and so far, all 5 still alive without any problems. (Knocking furiously on wood...)
Chuck

 

[AntaresVI]

I've had a WD "BA" series 20 gig for about a year now - the only probs i've had are once or twice it just randomly turned off when i was using my comp. Great HDD other than that though.

 

[Huggies]

I've had three western digitals go bad on me, never used them since, I used to LIVE by Quantum but I've changed to Maxtor now..

 

[Athlon4all]

I'm using a WD rght now. Works great!

 

[ShadowFox]

<<It had a hard time getting recognized by my BIOS>>

me too (i've got a 400bb), but once you use the little disk it come with, it works fine

 

[HalfCrazy]

I have a 20gb and 80gb WD hard drive. Never had any problems with them.

 

[Huma]

they're loud.

My 7200rpm 18gb WD was loud as hell, and I just replaced it with a seagate barracuda, but there's much newer 40gb WD in there that is still 3x louder than the seagate.

lame.

my first 18gb WD also died on me.

 

[phas3]

My 100 gb wd hard drive died on me about 1 week after I purchased it. Luckily I was able to RMA it and exchange it for a new one. Also I didn't lose any data because the Smart HD program was enabled so it detected it early. The exchanged 100 gb wd has been running smoothly for about a month now.

 

[Chadder007]

I've only had trouble with Quantum Fireballs. Ive had about 15 of them die at work. Man those things are aweful....most of them were in Gateway PC's.

 

[RazeOrc]

Heh, I have 2 80GIG 7200RPM drives running in a RAID 0 setup in my rig, I have had no problems with either, one is approx 3 months old, the other 1 month, I beat on these drives, unplug them while running, have banged them (accidently) and I have had no problems. For price/performance, WD are it right now, but if you want the 'most' reliable drives then Maxtor is the way to go right now, wouldn't touch IBM with a 20ft pole after my last machine ate itself on the 75GXP series. I believe the 100GB WD drive is the fastest at sustained file transfers but i may be wrong, someone posted the stats yesterday on the fastest drives, funny that the new ATA133 drives scored lower than the 'older' ATA100s....

 

[Mltsao]

Thanks for the replys guys... looks like people have had both bad and good experences so ill have to see.