WTF!? UNFRICKENBELIEVABLE!

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: Nightfall

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Seagate... 5yr warranties!

This is why all I buy now are Seagate.

They also produce less noise.

 

[thirdlegstump]

Have three 120GB Seagates in my main box. Not a single problem for the last 2 years under pretty heavy abuse. All on a 300w Sparkle that has lasted me 4 years now.

 

[Tremulant]

I have a Samsung 160GB drive in my home PC. No problems at all.

 

[bunker]

I've used damn near every mfg for harddrives and WD are the only brand I've ever had a failure on.

 

[CrackRabbit]

I have a dead 80gig WD drive sitting here on my desk... It will be the last drive I ever purchase from them. All Seagate for me.

 

[Crucial]

All I buy for my client builds are OEM WD drives. They all have a 3 year warranty and only one of them has failed so far. It died after a day of use. We built 60 pc's last year. I have used HD's from every manufacturer and they have all had failures at some point.

The fact that both of the OP's drives failed around the same time tells me that something in his system screwed things up.

 

[Gurck]

WD drives are now shipping with 3 year warranties, no more 1-year BS. Do you have a quality PSU and are the drives adequately cooled? At any rate I've never experienced problems with WD drives. It's natural to want to cry foul when you have a bad experience, but any manufacturer will have its lemons. Wrong forum, btw.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

They were from the same company, same model, manufactured in the same batch. It's not surprising they died at the same time.

 

[LTC8K6]

WD drives have always been good to me. You hear the same sorts of stories with different mfr's many times.

It just seems worse when it happens to you, I guess.

 

[Drakkon]

The only probs ive ever had with WD drives were caused by bad PSU's. I even still ahve a workhorse 5GB WD from way back in 1999 thats still stores data without a hitch and been out of numerous machines. I definately am on the seagate bandwagon now though, quiet and reliable dont get any better.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: bunker
I've used damn near every mfg for harddrives and WD are the only brand I've ever had a failure on.

 

[scorp00]

I had my 200gb western digital die after about 8 months of very minimal use(gaming and surfing at night). Then the replacement died within a month. I was so pissed off I went out that day and bought a maxtor and I'm never touching another WD again. Also had a 120gb die about 2 years ago that was a WD. Their HDD's are absolute crap. I have owned more maxtors and haven't had one die yet.

 

[Crucial]

Originally posted by: scorp00
I had my 200gb western digital die after about 8 months of very minimal use(gaming and surfing at night). Then the replacement died within a month. I was so pissed off I went out that day and bought a maxtor and I'm never touching another WD again. Also had a 120gb die about 2 years ago that was a WD. Their HDD's are absolute crap. I have owned more maxtors and haven't had one die yet.

Thats funny because all I used to buy were Maxtors and after too many failures I switched to WD.

 

[RU482]

replaced 2 maxtors this year due to the same problem
one was a couple months out of warranty

 

[RU482]

question..how exactly does the average joe (without an osilloscope) "check" his power supply?

 

[dc]

replaced 2 maxtor's in the last 6 months. one was a 6 month old 160gb, they replaced it with a 2 1/2 year old refurbished drive. lol.

last 2 drives i bought recently have been seagates, now if they would only release drives larger than 200gb. lol.

 

[eelw]

I'm not sure who still offers 3yr warranties.

Most SATA drives still have 3 year or in some cases 5 year warranties. Unfortunately all PATA drives seem to only have 1 year warranties now.

 

[Nikamichi]

Originally posted by: TwiceOver
Seagate... 5yr warranties!

:thumbsup:

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO
No, voting for Kerry should be a ban!

LOL Bamavoo, how'd you manage to fit that one in there?

:thumbsup:

 

[brxndxn]

After working in a computer store and helping a lot of my friends build computers with RAID 0 (to be cool, mostly), I realized that they tend to fail around the same time.

It's odd, but it seems like when one drive fails (same brand, same age), the other seems to fail within a short amount of time.. I tend to avoid hard drives with consecutive serial numbers when I'm putting them in a RAID 1 configuration. It is REALLY annoying to have a RAID 1 completely fail when you're relying on it for important data.

 

[DrPizza]

Originally posted by: troytime
So friday one of my WD 120gb SATA drives starts acting up - i have 2 of them configured as raid0.
I was getting clicks, hangs, and crashes every 20 minutes or so.
I spent all friday night and saturday backing up about 150gb worth of stuff onto DVD and external hard drives.

I spent all day sunday getting the computer fixed, and all afternoon and evening on monday getting the computer ready to run again (installing software, restoring back ups, etc)

So yesterday everything was great - i was running off of one 120gb WD SATA drive, and had a dead one lying there.

I wake up at 2am to *CLICK**CLICK*CLICK*CLICK* coming from the computer.
I get up and check it - DISK BOOT FAILURE.
I restarted...same thing.
I checked it again before i came to work...same thing, no workie.

I bought these drives at the exact same times.
BOTH fricken warranties expired in SEPTEMBER 2004.
BOTH drives die within 3 days of eachother.

What the crap kind of horseshit is this??
Seems like they were designed to die 1 month after warranty expiration.

No more western digital for me.

</rant>

WOW! Sounds like they've got a good grip on the mean time to failure, and warrant them for 1 month less... plus they have a very low standard deviation on their mean.
Really, that sucks. I'd be pretty bummed.

 

[AkumaX]

Originally posted by: SilverTorch

Originally posted by: troytime
No more western digital for me.

Yup, thats what I said.

werd

 

[Crucial]

Originally posted by: eelw

I'm not sure who still offers 3yr warranties.

Most SATA drives still have 3 year or in some cases 5 year warranties. Unfortunately all PATA drives seem to only have 1 year warranties now.

There are 9 different WD EIDE drives that have 3 year warranties at Newegg.

 

[blakeatwork]

Originally posted by: brxndxn
After working in a computer store and helping a lot of my friends build computers with RAID 0 (to be cool, mostly), I realized that they tend to fail around the same time.

It's odd, but it seems like when one drive fails (same brand, same age), the other seems to fail within a short amount of time.. I tend to avoid hard drives with consecutive serial numbers when I'm putting them in a RAID 1 configuration. It is REALLY annoying to have a RAID 1 completely fail when you're relying on it for important data.

And really silly to just really on the integrity of HDD without taking a tape or CD/DVD backup... especially with the cost of media being very cheap..