They had a linked website at one time, but I was wrong, apparently
Western Digital and Seagate are the two biggest manufactures and they've
been buying everyone else. I think it was just a joint software venture.
On 11/7/2011 3:36 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: "P. J. Alling"
I think if you check, that Seagate bought Western Digital some time ago.
How long ago? The two MyBooks that I have that suck are from around
2008 & 2009.
Seagate may own them now, but nothing I have seen or heard since I
bought those two MyBooks makes me want to give WD another try.
On 11/6/2011 1:25 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: "Brian Walters"
I had a similar experience a couple of months ago. My second backup
drive died without warning, not long after my first backup drive
started
acting strangely. The latter is also a MyBook, but an older one of
500MB, and the problem was slightly different to yours - it wasn't
recognised by the operating system until about 15 minutes after
powering
up. It then behaved itself and continues to do so, although I don't
rely on it. I quickly went out and bought another external drive.
Investigation of the second backup drive suggests that the disk
controller is the problem and not the hard disk itself but I
haven't got
around to buying a new enclosure. I should do that...
I have two WD MyBook drives. Both of them have the same problem with
taking a long time to be recognized. Both started having the same
problem within a few months of purchase. It might not be the disk
controller. I think it's because the power supplies are crap.
And, most of the internal hard-drives I've ever had problems with have
been Western Digital too. I'd rather have a Seagate or Maxtor drive.
They just seem to be more reliable.
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