My experience with WD for the last 8 years has been the same. I'm just one man, but I consistently have the most trouble with Maxtor and WD. The oddest trouble is a few years ago I had a couple of 6.4GB WD IDE drives that would only work if there was another device on the ribbon. The drives would not operate alone regardless of jumper config. Last week, a 160GB drive in a computer I was looking at stopped working. I tried it in a USB carriage as well, in which it came up once, then went away in the explorer window before my eyes. Out of curiosity I put it back into the computer case, added a second drive to the IDE cable and boom, works like a champ. Unbelievable.
-- Mike Gill From: Gene Giannamore [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:50 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Seagate HDs While working for a local small computer repair shop, we noticed the highest failure rate from 160GB and 60GB IDE/SATA hard drives (all brands), and more failures from Maxtor and Seagate compared to WD. The brand failure rate was probably due to number of units sold. WD used to have a great RMA process, used to get brand new drives as replacements, now get recertified (useless when drive is DOA). Hopefully the high failures for consumer drives will not spill over to the high end SCSI/SAS/FC drives. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
