I had a Western Digital drive fail as well. I wouldn't touch one with a ten foot pole. I've had good luck with Maxtor. Several of them buzzing away on my system no. Four hard drive in all. The only others that failed were in-case drives that came with my Mac computers. Ugly little drives, in other words. Paul About 1.5 terrabytes disk space. Paul On Jun 25, 2007, at 9:01 PM, P. J. Alling wrote:
> 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 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
