western digital, i give up. - Tech Support Forums

S.D.Willie · May 18th, 2002, 03:28 PM

i surrender. you win. you have killed me 2 times when i had alot of data on you. you suck. you should die. i used to praise you and support you in the forums. from now on i will be going with maxtor and possibly seagate which ive had no issues with.

SD

THE V_I_R_U_S · May 18th, 2002, 03:34 PM

I love my western digital. They are very reliable drives. I don't know what happened to your drives. Maybe your mobo killed them (I've had that happen before, believe it or not.) I've never had any problems with my WD. But yeah, if you hate WD that much, go ahead and get seagate or maxtor.

prttybean · May 18th, 2002, 03:54 PM

I have one running in my sons machine. Its a 13 GB. I got it for free. The prior owner RMA'd it twice and then gave it to me because they were sick of it. It runs fine but I don't put important data on a WD. There 540 MB abd 850 MB drives are rock stable but who uses drives that tiny anymore?

S.D.Willie · May 18th, 2002, 03:55 PM

yeah i just had to rant. i have an asus p3bf which has been doing fine too. i always used WD for the systems ive built for friends, and relatives too. maybe we just need time apart. ha.

kendo · May 22nd, 2002, 03:59 AM

it happens

only bad drives in the box i ever received were wd's

the 6.4 series were problematic i bought three and rma'd three

their rma process is relatively painless and i did get bigger drives back, so that was cool

Ming · May 22nd, 2002, 08:40 AM

Nothing wrong with Seagate, especially their SCSI drives. Sure you pay, but very solid.

dustyrun · May 26th, 2002, 10:58 PM

Hey,
I started with the WD 840 meg and am up to the 120 gig SE.
they have all ran fine. even the 2 gig I still have.. BUT in support..I just purchased 5- 20 gig, 5400 rpm's and 2 were RMA..
It happens..sorry

Rick

FreakyOCR · May 26th, 2002, 11:05 PM

Hey it could have been worse.. you could have bought an IBM.

Tomteriffic · May 27th, 2002, 12:11 AM

I'm on my fourth 6.4, but heck, I only piad for it once and that was about 5 years ago.

I've also had a 13.6 croak on me, so those two go on UD cows or on experimental machines with nothing critical on them. Besidews, they'd always bet a bit wierd, noisy or something before they gave up the ghost completely, so I never had a catastrophic loss.

I've had sudden death failures with Seagate, IBM and Maxtor, and just won't fool with them anymore. the only particular advantage that Maxtor has is the easy RMA policy.

But the current crop of WD stuff with sizes that are all multiples of 20 have been good solid performers for me.

Strangely, the one brand that has been solid, fast, quiet and dead solid reliable has been Samsung. Pretty inexpensive, too.

SickPup404 · May 28th, 2002, 11:54 AM

LOL, FreakyOCR!!

I did buy IBM, and had to RMA.... Now it's in a RAID1 with a Maxtor for a mirror and 2 80mm fans drawing air over it...

Been fine since (knock on wood)!