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From: Metspitzer on 20 Mar 2010 19:27
I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing.

What is your drive brand name of choice?
From: Conor on 20 Mar 2010 19:36
On 20/03/2010 23:27, Metspitzer wrote:
> I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing.
>
> What is your drive brand name of choice?

Not had a problem with WD. They've a 3 year guarantee so send them back
to them.

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From: spodosaurus on 20 Mar 2010 19:38
On 21/03/2010 7:27 AM, Metspitzer wrote:
> I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing.
>
> What is your drive brand name of choice?

WD and Samsung

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From: "nobody >" on 20 Mar 2010 22:59
Metspitzer wrote:
> I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing.
>
> What is your drive brand name of choice?

Failing HOW?

I haven't had a WD die on me in over 10 years.

Poor cooling? Weak power supply? Bad RAM?

Have you run WD's Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows or their
self-booting Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for DOS (CD)?
http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=502&sid=30&lang=en

At least run a lookie-see on the SMART diagnostics on the drive
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.
http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm


Other than "obvious bad" (as in banging heads,no spin, etc), I've seen
more "bad drives" that were just fine; it was data corruption caused by
bad RAM/poor cables/hosed OS that made folks think their drive was
fubar'ed.
From: larry moe 'n curly on 21 Mar 2010 04:33


Metspitzer wrote:
>
> I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing.

Do you have a large amount of WD drives, or are your WD drives on
avera older than your other drives? Because I can't find reliable
information that says any brands or current models have been less
reliable than average, except for the Seagate 7200.11, which suffered
from badly designed firmware that's since been fixed.

> What is your drive brand name of choice?

I buy whatever is on sale and is brand new. I avoid "recertified"
drives because warranties are often short (90-365 days), and Seagate
and WD said they reset the SMART data that indicates how many hours
the HD had been run and how many bad sectors cropped up in use. Also
if the drive is for an old computer that has trouble recognizing 300GB/
s SATA drives, I get a Seagate or WD because their drives can be
slowed to 150GB/s max. using a jumper, rather than needing a program
to do this, as do Samsung and Hitachi.



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