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About 9months ago i bought a new 80gb Western Digital HD which failed 1month ago. (loading screen showed hard drive failure) Less than 2 week ago (11/05) i bought another 80gb Western Digital HD and it failed today(11/13).... WHAT THE FREAKIN' HELL!!! (excuse my languge sorry) but it is really pi$$ing me off how my older(5yrold) 30gb 5200rpm Quantum Fireball hd works perfectly fine. i just want a little verification, am i getting unlucky and buying shiet Hardware?? or does that company suck or what. oh yea, my older HD is made in Japan, the Western Digitals are made in(1st one Thailand) (2nd one Malaysia).
If that happened twice I think you oughta check your pc for grounding... I have a wd disk and its still ok, but I prefer seagate.
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Do you know if it was the drive or the circuit board? I recenty fried the circuit boards on 2 WD HDs at the same time. Same chip even. Not sure of source, but have rebuilt a system.
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i don't think it has anything to do with grounding, im still using my old hard drive in place on the failed newer ones. never had a problem with the older one. i rarely leave the computer on for more than 16hours, but all of a sudden while i was sleeping my 2nd hd starts making really loud clicking sounds and my comp shut down, then wouldn't restart. i just replaced my motherboard not too long ago. is a circuitboard and motheroboard the same?
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Almost every WD hard drive I or a friend ever bought stopped working after a few months. Meanwhile, I have had the same Seagate as my primary drive for over 5 years, and have two other Seagates about 2 years old. WD seems to be garbage to me.
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WD does make good HDD when they do work, but i find there quality not all that great and reliable.
My friends just died on him like a week and a half ago (also WD) and his was only like a yr old, mean while, my Seagate (which i love Seagate and think they are the way to go) has coming up on two years here soon, and is runnig great, and with the abuse i put it through...no not really.
But yah. Just another fact that i throw into the bunch.
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I have installed literally hundreds of WD drives and have not lost one to date that I am aware of. I have however lost several Maxtors.
I would call or E-mail WD and ask what is up. Thier tech support is excellent although Maxtor has a better RMA policy.
Jimi_l
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I have the same situation as Jimi_l (although not hundreds). All my WD drives are still humming along happily. I have three Quantum (now Maxtor) drives (out of four) as paperweights. Two are Fireball drives.
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I think this whole issue of drive quality is a moving target. Personnaly the only HD that has ever failed on me was an IBM about 18 months ago. It was from a series that had a very high failure rate. WD had good reputation, then bad, then good, now seemingly bad again. As we desire bigger, faster drives that cost less I would guess that something needs to give. I think the engineering on modern components may be good, but the quality control leaves something to be desired.
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I use WDC almost exclusively & have never had one crap out. I've had no prob with Maxtors, though my experience with them is limited. Supposedly Seagate is putting out a good product, but I've replaced more than my share of older Seagates that had gone bad, so I avoid them.
Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @8x210mhz
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Ti4200/8X 128mb
WDC 60GB
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so buyer beware on choice of hd whether WD,Maxtor,Fujitsu,IBM,Quantum,Samsung or Seagate
david
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Never a problem with western digital here, I have 2 4gigs, 10gig, 3 40gigs, 3 80gigs, and a 120gig.
Never bought an oem though, always from a local dealers in retail packages. I too would contact wd customer support. If you don't like wd then just see if you can rma them then sell them when you get them back and buy what you want.
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