Richard Starr wrote:
--- You wrote:
What's the general opinion on Western Digital hard drives?
Tom
--- end of quote ---
Stay away. I've seen lots of opinions to support this.
My experience was to buy one to replace a drive in a Firewire box. Never
worked, though it was fine when mounted in the computer. I spent hours trying
to get it to format in the firewire...I exchanged it for a Maxtor which was up
and running instantly.
Go figure. The WD drives aren't that much cheaper than Maxtor anyway.
Rich
The reason behind this is that WD drives have seperate settings for
Master as a single drive and Master as a slave. Having them set on
Master (w/slave) sometimes confuses IDE controllers when only one drive
is present, which would be why your firewire box threw a wobbly. This
doesn't make them bad drives IMHO ;)
Jason
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