I've had bad luck with WD aswell, bought 5 SATA drives at $200 a piece and 2 of them were functional. Atleast there is no problem RMA'ing them with the warranty and all.

wd sucks, i had a few they all went down, one even due to temperature, maxtors all along here no problem at all

oddly enough, during the last years i had IBMs, maxtors and WDs and averagely they would all start doing crazy stuff after one year more or less.....could it be due to the KIND of work they do? a guy that works in a comp shop told me that if you do lots of video editing, then your hdd will be really stressed, 1 year of video editing work could be compared to 5 years of regular hdd's life....do you think that that was just plain BS or can be true?

some just arent lucky with WD

Western Digital lost some of their momentum, but are far from beeing as shitty as you say...

first off Very cool thread, great pics as well.

2nd, I've used WD for many years and never had a prob with them,personaly I prefer Maxtor or Seagate, but I seem to have probs with Seagate drives when they get filled to the brim lol, (I do that alot) in fact not a month ago I lost my 80gig SG backup drive, no warning, no noises zip zero nadda. just booted up and it was gone, took it out, chip was fried :( took drive to data recovery pretty much useless. So now i'm sticking with Maxtor.

But hell I also swore by windows 98 when I had my cyber cafe open a few years back lol.

-Loki-

Western Digital drives suck
:thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup

I did have four (4) of'em laying on the floor by my comuter desk.... Just 2 remind me how much they sucked.

All four (4) of'em went out.

Never had a problem with the 10 or 12 WD drives I've had/still have in use.

My original 10MEG, full height MFM drive that I bought second-hand for about $150 in 1990 or so is the only drive I've had die before I upgraded (I lost some Pascal and C programs). Although drives are rated MTBF, I've been lucky.

My host backs up my servers each night, so thats a plus..

*knock on wood* :)

SplitInfinity, you need to buy some clockworks now and build yourself a new shop clock outta that trashed disk and dead heads! :D

Now I had problems with maxtor but my wd's have worked no problem. Could it be Im using their newer sata's? I wonder

They suck, but their warrenties are good. Maxtor is probably a better choice though.

Anything but Seagate is a poor choice.

Whether it's SCSI or IDE.

But just don't buy those cheapo's from Best Buy, those are the shittiest drives Seagate makes which are made for computers that come on like 1 time every three months.

"SplitInfinity, you need to buy some clockworks now and build yourself a new shop clock outta that trashed disk and dead heads!"

Now thats a great idea! We could make alot of clocks actually because we have soooo many dead drives piled up. :-)

I use LaCie. Good products :thumbsup

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10551

I have a WD Caviar SE 200GB hdd and the only time it fucked up on me was due to a virus that fucked my partition table and the master boot record. Besides that I have not had one single problem and my pc is on 24/7.

I *THINK* that the LaCie you list is made with Hitachi hard drives. LaCie does not manufacture hard drives from what I understand.

you know come to think of it... putting two and two together...

I have 2 seagate external backup drives, and 2 western digital.

Right now one WD is completely fucked, and the other I don't use because it sometimes gives errors in tranferring data.

On the other hand, the seagates have been trouble free so far.

i have one hard drive , dunno the brand, 4,1 gig. From 1995. hell yeah 10 years never had a problem. thats what i call a quality. last time i checked toms hardware guide, years ago, WD rocked maxtor sucked. i hear its the opposite now. hhehe

If it's 200Gb then it's either relatively new, or you paid big $ as an early adopter. :winkwink:

I had an IBM 8.4Gb drive sitting in a server for 5 years; still used it for a few more after that. I eventually retired it because the capacity was too small. It still works.

I will never buy a Western Digital again. I had over 5 of them so out on me. That was over 5 years ago but I still hold a grudge.

Mark