How many WD drives have died on you?

[rabbit74]

Just thought I'd see if anyone else has problems with WD drives dying on them.

Just had another one die on me today. That makes 6 this year.

Most recent falures
2 x 1T Green
1 x 320G Blue
1 x 500G Green
2 x 640G Blue
can't remember the specifics of the others...

If you have a dead WD drive please post it here.

rabbit

 

[Pink_Waters]

lol, there's got to be something wrong with your rig or how/where you use them
are you using them as boomerangs or something?!
thats alot of drives!

Do you use greens as OS drives?

I have 4 w.d drives, one is new, and 1 is a year old, and another two from about 2/3 years.. all working fine..

 

[rabbit74]

2 of them were mine. The rest were brought to me by friends.

D

 

[Pink_Waters]

dunno, I always buy W.D, the best guaranteed drives I had since quantum Big Foot

 

[D.Clark]

I've had 3 Drives from 2005 all WD. One Raptor 74 GB and two 160 GB Drives all still working ,but not in use since about 2 months. And one 500 GB Caviar Blue in my Rig since 2009 and 2 WD external harddrives (one Elements and one MyBook)

None has died yet.

 

[tinkerC]

Rabbit, you are not the only unlucky person with WD drives. I know a Mac repair guy, who has pulled countless dead WD drives out of real Macs. Perhaps Hitachi will do better for your computers, rabbit.

Tom

 

[rabbit74]

I'm a seagate guy now.

I've had even more busted Hitachi drives than any other. At least the made in Thailand ones. I literally have a bucket full of them in the back room.

r.

 

[Pink_Waters]

I am really curious how do you use those drives..

are you sure there is not something wrong with your PC or PSU ?
also maybe if you put your case on the ground beside a powerful sub-woofer, this may have an impact on hdds..

also make sure your case is steady, and does not vibrate/shake alot..

 

[Vendetta]

I pretty much only buy WD. Only had 1 die that I can recall, and it was the one that was shipped in my iMac. It crapped out after 2 years.

Thank goodness for backup utilities though, eh?

 

[Samuell421]

I've bought countless WD's over the years, had only 2 with issues over the years. Both developed bad sectors and a reformat fixed that on each. In fact, every WD I've bought since '00 is still working and in use (15 of them at last count)

Also, I even have a powermac G4 from 00-01 with two 60gb WD's that are still kicking.

Compare that to the one seagate I bought three years ago (barracuda 250gb) - had to rma one week after buying...