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Title: western digital hard drive problems
Post by: lestat on October 15, 2001, 04:19:35 PM

has anyone had problems with western digital hard drives?
i have 3  friends whom have lost atleast 2 western digital HD\'s a piece..thats unreal...they say the longest theyve lasted has been 30 days..the average lifetime was less than a week...
i was there when 1 of those 6 HD\'s fried...and i just thought it was coincidence...well i bought a western digital 35 days ago,  and walla,  its f*cked...its been clicking since last night and has slowed down my pc immensly....

anyone experience any similar problems?

Title: western digital hard drive problems
Post by: Solid Snake 88 on October 15, 2001, 06:19:30 PM

Well I\'ve heard lots of bad things about Western Digital HDs but I\'ve had my one (20gig) for a month or two and have had no problems so far. Maybe its just some ones, maybe I just got lucky.
I dunno.

Bring it back if you can, hopefully you didn\'t have anything *too* important on it.

Title: western digital hard drive problems
Post by: lestat on October 15, 2001, 06:29:02 PM

well it hasnt died yet,  and i just backed up everything i had,  but its terribly slow now and it was clicking for hours last night...

im just pist cause ive installed and configured my pc better than ever this time around and had everything running sweet...just last week i made the mistake of admitting how happy i was with my pc and how i hoped i would never have to format again...guess i jinxed everything huh?

Title: western digital hard drive problems
Post by: Jar O Pickles on October 15, 2001, 07:15:48 PM

ive hade a 30 gig western dig. for about 6 months and its worked great even when i took it out of a 450mhz p3 and put in a 2.0 ghz p4 it worked great maybe when u and your friends put them in the first time u formatted it wrong try reformating it then use the disk that came with the hard drive to do the partitions over again if this isnt the only hard drive in your sys. try spacing the hard drives out there should be 4 slots for hard drives try using the third one


P.S. the disk that came with the drive also has a diagnostic tool on it try using that see what it says

Title: western digital hard drive problems
Post by: macabre on October 15, 2001, 07:16:07 PM

I have no problems with mine. I own it longer than 2 years now.

Title: western digital hard drive problems
Post by: EmperorRob on October 15, 2001, 07:24:31 PM

I got a 15G ATA66 WD no problems.  It\'s over 2 years old.  But that\'s just luck for both of us I\'m sure.

I have had 5 Maxtor\'s and 1 went bad.  The good thing about HD failures is that the companies will usually re-imburse you with a larger capacity drive.

Title: western digital hard drive problems
Post by: Coredweller on October 15, 2001, 07:51:33 PM

I used to swear by WDs about six years ago, and then I experienced a string of failures on WDs in the PCs I was working on.  My father had a couple of them in one system and they both failed.  The copper pathways lifted up off the pc board on the underside of the drive.  It was very weird and difficult to fix.

Now I\'ve switched over to Maxtors, and had fairly good luck with them.  They are a hell of a lot quieter than WDs also.  Who knows, maybe these will fail in a couple years also.  You just have to back up your stuff obsessively.

Title: western digital hard drive problems
Post by: EmperorRob on October 16, 2001, 06:22:15 AM

Actually my WD 15 G ATA66 2 yr old drive is quieter than my 6 month old 30 G ATA100 Maxtor Diamond+

Title: western digital hard drive problems
Post by: JP on October 16, 2001, 06:43:07 AM

I just got an 80gb WD drive the other day. Damn, didn\'t know there were so many probs with WD... I know they\'re not the best HDD manufacturers but it was cheap so I said what the hell...
Now I wish I had bought an IBM or Maxtor instead.

Title: western digital hard drive problems
Post by: videoholic on October 16, 2001, 07:06:32 AM

Aparently there has been a recall of certain models of the WD Drives.
http://gbg.bonet.se/ivil/you.html


There is a list of them.  Didn\'t see if yours was on the list.

Title: western digital hard drive problems
Post by: lestat on October 16, 2001, 07:37:51 AM

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Originally posted by Videoholic
Aparently there has been a recall of certain models of the WD Drives.
http://gbg.bonet.se/ivil/you.html

cmon now...whats the point of that?
my hard drive is fuKKed and you have to go and post some stupid sh!t like that....dont bother replying to the thread if you have nothing smart to say you sack of sh!t.

Title: western digital hard drive problems
Post by: nO-One on October 16, 2001, 08:35:57 AM

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Originally posted by EmperorRob
Actually my WD 15 G ATA66 2 yr old drive is quieter than my 6 month old 30 G ATA100 Maxtor Diamond+

That\'s because Maxtor is the devil, damn that company just get\'s on my nerves.

IBM is good, however the 75GXP is supposed to die after only a few months, the 60GXP is supposed to be excellent though.

Title: western digital hard drive problems
Post by: videoholic on October 16, 2001, 09:31:34 AM

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Originally posted by lestat


cmon now...whats the point of that?
my hard drive is fuKKed and you have to go and post some stupid sh!t like that....dont bother replying to the thread if you have nothing smart to say you sack of sh!t.

I other words....

You clicked it...

:laughing: hehehehe:laughing: