Dom

I hear a lot of things about Western Digital HD's (mostly good). I have a WD1200BB-00CAA0 HD and it works great, but I hear some people say Western Digital HD's are not good, they die fast. Is this true?

Please post opinions, experiences & facts.

AngelRavin

Its the IBM's that die fast

the WD

specially the SE with the 8MB cache are awesome HDs

JavaFox

Well, if you were to walk into my room and look at the stack of dead hard drives I've accumulated over the years, you'd see one ancient Seagate, three dead IBMs, and four dead Western Digitals. There are no Maxtors or modern Seagates. It is for that reason that I stay away from WD.

That said, I am interested in the new 8MB drives. People have generally had very nice things to say about them, so I'm relatively sure WD has changed a little since I last used them.

AngelRavin

youd be surprised java

i think ppl get bad parts or bad batches no and again

with me i have 2 wds and they run awesome

but youre right for best reliability in my book is has been Maxtor as well

Mark7

Western Digital did have a large number of drives that had a faulty controller chip that would start thrashing the heads back and forth wildly. But that was over a year ago and the odds of any remaining in dealers inventories has to be extremely small. The bad part was, WD wasn't going to make the problem public, just replace those drives as owners/dealers called in.

Same with IBM, recently they have a rash of complaints on one model DeskStar.

Personally, Maxtors and Fujitsu's have served me extremely well over the past 10 years.

Dom

I heard from a friend that when Western Digital HD's first came out that they were good. Then they got popular and started to produce in quantity and not quality, but now they've gotten a lot better and are one of the best. Most of the bad stories I heard about them were on older models, so maybe the newer one's are good.

Malus

Quantum was the best.

My Maxtor is pretty nice and my dad hasn't had any problems with his WD lately.

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JavaFox

Yeah, well, I would be willing to try out the new WDs if they were as quiet as my Seagate Barracuda IV.

Sourcer_2002

Yeah i have Quantum Bigfoot TS 12.7 Gig that i use to back up stupid sh*t now and then i/ve had for like 4 years and it still runs great.

AngelRavin

The new Maxtor drives are being made by the quanturn crew that maxtor absorbed thats why the new ones rock so hard

Sourcer_2002

LoL yeah i know try getting some quantum software now adays lol zdisk101.exe for low level formating. But other then that they rock

AngelRavin

actually i have a program that will do taht........the total destroy drive and write zeros to it

Dom

I gonna get this HD soon, Maxtor 40Gig, 7200RPM - ATA133, 57$.

JavaFox

Oh my sweet Jesus. I used to have nightmares about Quantumk Bigfeet, dude! Those drives are horrid!

Why... did... you... have... to... remind... me?!

Sourcer_2002

Dude if you can will you tell me where to d/l it i got a bad HDD that needs it pretty hardcore and i cant find one (got pissed of searching on google for it )