My hard drive horror story: Bought a Western Digital hard drive -- I forget the capacity but it was in the mid-90's so it was small by today's standards. Mid-capacity and mid-priced at the time.
It worked fine for about 6 months then died completely. W-D provided (after I jumped through many hoops) a replacement; exact same model. That one lasted 4 months before ringing down the curtain and joining the choir invisible. W-D again supplied a new replacement under warranty. That one was dead right out of the box. No kidding. They sent a replacement for *that* one and I didn't even install it. I took it, still sealed in its factory packaging, to a local computer shop and traded it in on a Seagate drive which lasted until I outgrew its capacity. The only other trouble I've ever had was with a laptop that kept losing critical system files. I did a surface scan with Partition Commander, which found and marked off a couple of bad sectors, and never had another problem with it. ...but to this day I won't buy a Western Digital hard drive. Call it superstition, obstinacy or whatever. Plus the fact that Seagate is a "local business": Their stuff is of course built overseas but their R&D headquarters is in downtown Pittsburgh :) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
