Western Digital is a joke

[Sandor]

its pretty shoddy for a disk to fail after a few months and then get a damaged one sent out.

i'd have been annoyed too.

[MR_Candyman]

Hard drives are fragile devices, they all fail eventually regardless of the company that made them. True there are bad batches sometimes like the recent Seagate drives, but I've found overall that one company is as good as any other as far as reliability. I've got hard drives from various companies that are nearing 20 years old and still work fine, and I've had brand new drives die in a week. It's just a roll of the dice.

For what it's worth I've never had a WD drive fail. Out of the three I have lost one was a Maxtor and the other two were Seagates.

I completely agree with you. And for the record, I've had 2 WD drives and 1 Samsung drive fail me in 20 years. I'm still running most of my old drives

[MasterC]

sorry but this to me looks like they don't give a damn about the customer.

And yet they're sending you another one? Sounds like you're just complaining for the hell of it. Accidents happen. ;)

[Badtz-Maru]

I've only had WD, and they have never failed on me. Stop whining and wait until they don't do anything more before you complain. Clearly they're open to fixing the situation. That doesn't sound like a joke to me. You should be glad the support is still there and hasn't ditched you yet. Sounds like a quality company to me.

[Digitalx]

i've got a hitachi 80GB drive which is still running perfect it's 5 years old :p they make really solid drives that can quite easily run past their recommended time. WD I use for my main drives and I've yet to experience any botch ups what so ever with the drives i would say it's purely an unfortunate hick up generally the drives are good quality for their price and obviously the replacement was either a human error or really rough shipping.

[C++]

WD is probably the most reliable brand of hard drive I've seen, and I used to see about 10 machines a day when I worked in computer service... I saw a lot of older Seagates and newer Maxtors fail, but neither old nor new Western Digitals. One of the older machines I gave my parents has an 11 year old WD drive and an 8 year old one, and both work like a treat.

[Ez8]

I have the best luck w/ hdd *knocks on wood*

I owned Segate, Quantum, Hitachi, Toshiba, Western Digital, and Maxtor. Never had any of those drives failed.

Right now I have a 1TB internal WD as my main drive performance is great so far and I've had it for 2 and a half months.

[Raa]

Since I bought my first hard drive (a Quantum) which died within minutes of using it, I switched to Western Digital.

For over 15 years, i've had rock solid reliability, performance and operation.

I know only trust, use and sell WD drives where I can.

My friends that get Seagates are left in the dust. :p

[Denis W. Veteran]

I echo what some of these guys are saying. There's a bad batch of drives for all companies. Maybe except for Maxtor before they were bought by Seagate..

Anyways, I replaced a WD2500KS drive when the SMART data given by the drive was erratic. The replacement lasted for half a year - about a few days after it was retired from being my main desktop's OS and personal data hard drive, it was placed in my HTPC... and after hitting the circuit tripper on the surge protector bar, it died. By then the drive was already out of warranty.

They did give me an option to send it in to see what could've been done, as by then it was less than a month since the warranty expired. I didn't end up going that route; instead I replaced that drive with a WD3200AAKS. But at least they were nice enough to offer service shortly after the warranty period.

Otherwise, I still have a 4.5 year old WD2000JB drive that hasn't screwed up yet.

So you got a faulty drive in return that doesnt mean they suck it was just an unfortunate incident.

I have nothing but praise for Western Digital, ive only ever had 2 hard drives fail and both times ive set up an advanced RMA whereby they hold the funds on a debit/credit card and send you out the new drive first and you just pop the faulty one into the same box and send it back.

Yeah, their advanced RMA service is good. Make sure you use a reputable shipper when sending your drive back; Canada Post left me in the cold for three weeks about the status of my package to WD's offices.

[doublea2]

The only drives I ever order is WD, I have never had a problem with them, never had a drive failure in over 11 years with them.

I have had 2 of my 3 maxtor drives fail me in my experience, started making horrible sounds one say, and just quit. Same with hitatchi and the other brands, Most compters that come into our office (local computer repair.) Come in with segate/maxtor drives, I have only seen one computer with a WD drive falure, and the woman dropped her laptop down the stairs.

WD also is one of few companies whom is trying to be green!

I am sorry to hear your bad luck with them and hope your next drive is perfect.

[RAID 0]

WD is the only hard drive I'll buy, for me or others. Out of the 2 dozen (or more) drives I've bought from them, only ONE.. that's right, ONE has given me issues and that was after 6 years of service. It still works, but gives SMART errors.

[HawkMan]

I echo what some of these guys are saying. There's a bad batch of drives for all companies. Maybe except for Maxtor before they were bought by Seagate..

Yeah. Maxtor only had bad batches. I've yet to see a single MAxtor disk that didn't fail within one year, most fail within the first 3 months and had to be replaced.

They where the worst disaster in the history of HDD's

[Sam]

Yeah. Maxtor only had bad batches. I've yet to see a single MAxtor disk that didn't fail within one year, most fail within the first 3 months and had to be replaced.

They where the worst disaster in the history of HDD's

My 2 maxtors are 2-3 years old :)

[Arkos Reed]

I have nothing but praise for Western Digital, **** happens.

I second that. I once had a Raptor die on me, quite the old one you see.. WD360GD in the 4th year of warranty, of course that model wasn't manufactured anymore, guess what they did? They sent me back a WD1500ADFD ! (Raptor 150Gb)

[RAID 0]

Yeah. Maxtor only had bad batches. I've yet to see a single MAxtor disk that didn't fail within one year, most fail within the first 3 months and had to be replaced.

They where the worst disaster in the history of HDD's

I think you're thinking of the Hitachi DeathStar, I mean DESK... star.

[MR_Candyman]

Yeah. Maxtor only had bad batches. I've yet to see a single MAxtor disk that didn't fail within one year, most fail within the first 3 months and had to be replaced.

They where the worst disaster in the history of HDD's

You must be on crack. Maxtor drives had the same reliability as WD and Seagate. Hell, I still have 2 maxtor drives in my server. On'e about 10 years old, one's about 6.

[Sandor]

I've not had any drives fail fortunately.

Have maxtors, WD and samsung drives.

All of them have been going between 2 and 7 years so far.

[voidpharoh]

If they did it intentionally then I would agree, but is that likely? I am sure it is not their policy to replace faulty drives with faulty drives. It would waste their time and money. If they didn't care about customers they wouldn't replace either the first or second drive.

I also had a thought .. what if it was damaged in transit? Not their fault at all..

There is the possibility that it was damaged in transit, there is also the possibility the drive was a faulty refurbished unit. From what I understand it's fairly common for HDD manufacturers to send out refurbished drives out to customers for warranty replacement. I know that I've had a WD representative tell me on the phone that I would be recieving a refurbished drive for my last RMA (so far I've only had to RMA two WD drives). My refurbished unit is working great, but that doesn't mean that all refurbished units sent out for replacement will though (then again that applies to new replacement drives as well).

[ToneKnee]

Western Digital > Samsung > Seagate > Maxtor > Hitachi/IBM.

[doublea2]

I like what tony said!

It's simple for me the over 15 drives I have owned personally, not a single wd has ever failed.

The few maxtor/segates I have had die in less than 2 years.

I guess if they are "just as reliable" I have bad luck like everyone else posting here :p

[Tech God]

It was a mistake, move on and stop crying about it.

[RAID 0]

Western Digital > Samsung > Seagate > Maxtor > Hitachi/IBM.

QFT

[C_Guy]

Cabron, you can boycott WD if you want it will be your total loss.

I only get WD drives because I only get the best ;)

[JodyWatts]

I have an external WD that has been running for around 9 years. Very reliable.

BUT, I have had 2 MyBooks (500gb and 750gb) die in less than one year EACH. WD quality had gone in the toilet as of late. I will NEVER buy another mybook (or any external HDD with a WD drive) ... and will be VERY leery of even buying a WD HDD in general.

[Gersson]

If you think Western Digital Stinks...just wait till you bump heads with Seagate.