Sadly I've had Seagate, Samsung, WD and Maxtor drives fail at one time or another. The only ones that failed under warranty were a Maxtor, and a Western Digital, both died within a few weeks of purchase. Maxtor said they'd replace the drive no questions asked. Western Digital needed an original receipt or the warranty would start from the day of manufacture. I didn't have the receipt and that put the drive out of warranty, by more than a year. I'll not buy another of their products.
Mark Roberts wrote: > 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 :) > > > -- All dogs have four legs; my cat has four legs. Therefore, my cat is a dog. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
