According to this page: http://support.wdc.com/warranty/policy.asp most of their drives are 3-5 years. It is only a few portable drives that are at 1-year (which is understandable since they are going to get beat around a lot more).
We always buy the WD Black or Enterprise drives and thus get the full 5-year warranty. And WD is much nicer to work with with warranty replacement than Seagate. WD you just fill out a form online. Seagate I have had tell me over the phone (more than once) that they can't do anything because we are running Mac and I will have to install Windows on the drive first to see if that solves the issue. (Issue being the drive ticks and does not spin up) As to your specific problem, I have indeed never seen that - though it is possible that is a new message in Lion or something. Daniel On Dec 27, 2011, at 7:16 PM, Nathan Sims wrote: > I have a 1-yr old external 2TB WD drive that i've been using for my Time > Machine backups. The last few TM backups to it failed, so I'm running Disk > Warrior on it, but it only gets to "Locating directory data..." and then > floods the system log with 1000s upon 1000s of ominous messages: > > disk2s2: Bad (slow) blocks appearing in range 734608 to 734623, unless disk > was asleep and delay was due to spin-up. (-107752) > disk2s2: Bad (slow) blocks appearing in range 734688 to 734703, unless disk > was asleep and delay was due to spin-up. (-107600) > disk2s2: Bad (slow) blocks appearing in range 734800 to 734815, unless disk > was asleep and delay was due to spin-up. (-107652) > disk2s2: Bad (slow) blocks appearing in range 734848 to 734863, unless disk > was asleep and delay was due to spin-up. (-107030) > disk2s2: Bad (slow) blocks appearing in range 735024 to 735039, unless disk > was asleep and delay was due to spin-up. (-107615) > disk2s2: Bad (slow) blocks appearing in range 735040 to 735055, unless disk > was asleep and delay was due to spin-up. (-107916) > disk2s2: Bad (slow) blocks appearing in range 735200 to 735215, unless disk > was asleep and delay was due to spin-up. (-107817) > disk2s2: Bad (slow) blocks appearing in range 735216 to 735231, unless disk > was asleep and delay was due to spin-up. (-107784) > disk2s2: Bad (slow) blocks appearing in range 735248 to 735263, unless disk > was asleep and delay was due to spin-up. (-107919) > disk2s2: Bad (slow) blocks appearing in range 735280 to 735295, unless disk > was asleep and delay was due to spin-up. (-107708) > disk2s2: Bad (slow) blocks appearing in range 735296 to 735311, unless disk > was asleep and delay was due to spin-up. (-107821) > ... > > It's still running, chugging out message after message, so it looks like Disk > Warrior is it telling me that the drive is toast. It does say "Speed reduced > by disk malfunction." I hate to lose a year's worth of backups... > > Only a year old! I just checked out Seagate drives online, and they like WD > have only a 1-year warranty. Wow, whatever happened to the industry-wide > 5-year warranties on these things? > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
