6 replies to this topic

[Novahawk]

Damn Western Digital....

Now the last WD drive i have had died, thats 5 out of 5 WD drives that have died on me.

Haven't lost a single Maxtor or Seagate drive (excluding an 8GB 11 year old Maxtor, which was the swap drive for my linux setup, so it served out its time).

All of these WD drives died within 2 years of purchase.

[DarkShadow]

buy a better powersupply and a case that doesn't have so much vibration, obviously this issue is on your end if 5 different drives died.

[Novahawk]

They are not all in the same case and computer, this is over some time on 4 different machines....

The same machines have the Seagates and Maxtors that have been running for 4+ years (and some 6+)

I guess I'm just unlucky and get low quality sh*t from WD, but never had any other drives besides WD fail....

[DarkShadow]

at least with WD they have a good RMA policy unlike Seagate, especially with that *oh, we released this firmware update and it broke your drive, sucks for you* bullshit.

Maxtor are aids though, had 4 of those die at the same time once, Never again.

[Novahawk]

Yeah I'm probably going to try out a Samsung as a replacement for this one that died....

There's a good deal on a 640GB Samsung on Newegg right now.

[DarkShadow]

that's not how RMA's work...

[Jack]

I don't think the brand name really has sh*t to do with it since I've had both fail. I think it's more a matter of bad batches and quality control. Seeing as that's the case, I'd go with the best RMA.