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08-14-2002, 07:34 AM | #1 |
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WD hard drives are crap!
Well I have had this 60gb Hard drive 10 days and its already nackered the dam things reporting that it may fail anytime and its clunking like crazy
my farther inlaw has had 4 in 3 month. So either they make real bad ones or just my bad luck I dont know.
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08-14-2002, 07:35 AM | #2 |
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is 60gb really nessesary? 40gb is even a bit much
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08-14-2002, 07:56 AM | #3 |
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when I play games on it 60 aint big enough!
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08-14-2002, 08:00 AM | #4 |
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WDs rule...have never had a problem with one. Quantums lick. IBMs suck. Fujitsus blow.
60GB is average as games are getting even larger as we speak (not to mention your mp3 collection and the pr0n)...go 100GB at least. |
08-14-2002, 08:15 AM | #5 |
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my pr0n collection is 2.93gb what about yours?
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08-14-2002, 08:32 AM | #6 |
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I have a 120gb (I do alot of video editing, takes up mass HD space) WD that i've been using for a while, and a 6.4gb that I've been using for years. Never had da problemw ith either.
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08-14-2002, 08:35 AM | #7 |
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No problems so far with my new WD 100GB with 8MB Cache... DAMN fast too... I can now load a save game in Morrowind in < 12 seconds, region loads are like 2-3 seconds...
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08-14-2002, 08:43 AM | #8 |
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WD are good drives, they have a great return policy as well.
I have been using them in all 6 of my machines on the home network. Here at work we have Fujitsu drives which were all upgrades within the last 6 months, at last count 17 have died a horrible death under normal usage. That is a crappy drive. |
08-14-2002, 08:57 AM | #9 |
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What they said. Worked at a computer store where we installed thousands of WD drives. They had a great service record. I've had a 6.4 gig for 5+ years now that seems to be taking a little longer to spin up than it used to, but it still works like a charm.
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08-14-2002, 09:07 AM | #10 | |
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08-14-2002, 09:45 AM | #11 |
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LD: Everyone has their own collection habits, music, videos, porn, documents, what have you. Some just collect more avidly than others....
Wheels: I've sent back more WD drives than any other brand. What I can say about them is that their RMA's have always been no hassle. Call them up and tell them you want an advanced RMA: they'll send it to you in a day or two. You give them a CC# to put a hold on the amount of a new drive; you have 30 days to send them back your old one after you receive the new one. Then you can transfer over your data before the old one totally dies. |
08-14-2002, 11:10 AM | #12 |
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I agree w/ Wheels, I bought a 40gig drive and then about 2 months later it jsut completely crapped out on me to the point that the mobo would not even recognize that a drive was connected.
But I also agree that their return policy is good coz I e-mailed tech support about it and they said that it's still under warrenty, something I didn't even think about, and they told me to return it to them. Too bad I was lazy and didn't ship it back but my irreplaceable "data" was lost forever. |
08-14-2002, 11:16 AM | #13 |
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Every western digital drive I have owned has failed prematurely. I returned 2 of them after they got the "clunk of death"
I will never buy another western digital drive. Their return policy does not help me restore all of my data. |
08-14-2002, 11:59 AM | #14 |
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Hard drives are like motor oil: even though they all do pretty much the same thing, everyone has their favorites.
I personally will only buy Western Digitals simply because I've had four Maxtors, two Seagates, and a Quantum crap out on me, and WD's haven't let me down yet. They're pretty quiet, too, unlike the other three brands (generally, depending on model). Other people have had different experiences, but I swear by them. |
08-14-2002, 12:00 PM | #15 |
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I've got a 1.6 GB Western Digital (from back when those were huge ) and it was still working when I last tried it a couple of months ago. But I've had good look with every hard drive I've ever had. The same can not be said for my Plextor cd-rom drives where I had two fail within a year of acquiring them (the second was a warranty replacement for the first). For the money I paid I expected a lot more out of them.
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08-14-2002, 12:21 PM | #16 |
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My WD1200JB is doing good so far. Hopefully it won't die anytime soon
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08-14-2002, 12:33 PM | #17 |
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WD drives are engineered to die right after the warranty period ends. I kid you not, I had 3 WD drives die on me within one month after the warranty period ended.
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08-14-2002, 01:17 PM | #18 |
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Is 60GB enough? Absolutely not. I don't even know if 1 TB (terrabyte) would hold all the electronica released in the past 5 years.
All your electronica belongs to me. |
08-14-2002, 01:49 PM | #19 |
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Parents' 2 y.o. Gateway WD died, previous one had no problems.
Question - how are you people backing up your 100 GB of stuff? |
08-14-2002, 01:54 PM | #20 | |
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08-14-2002, 01:54 PM | #21 | |
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08-14-2002, 02:35 PM | #22 | |
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Agreed...
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In fact, I still have a WD 730 MB that I use to transfer data between the PCs at work and those at home. I probably have a dozen hard drives in the PCs at home. So far only 1 IBM and two WDs have failed over the last eight years. Plextor? I am also disappointed with them. My CD-RW failed after 11 months and had to be serviced. Except for that Plextor, I never had a CD drive go bad on me. Not even the crappy Mitsumi 2X CD-R nor the mediocre Sony 4X CD-RW. |
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08-14-2002, 03:03 PM | #23 |
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I haven't had any bad experiences with my WD hard drives. The 20 gig that came with my computer 2 years ago is still going strong in my dad's computer now. And my 1 and half year old 30 gig WD is still going strong in my computer now (along side my 1 year old 75 gig IBM drive).
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08-14-2002, 04:31 PM | #24 |
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I have a 40GB drive in a removable drive tray that I use as a file backup location.
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08-14-2002, 04:44 PM | #25 | |
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