Western Digital is a joke

[briangw]

I sent my hard drive few weeks ago (WD6400AAKS) for a replacement or RMA after just 4 months of use, the HD became useless, well they sent me another one and looks to me brand new. Well when I am trying to install the OS, I tried to partition the drive but it does not let me do anything, I tried few different OS's and all failed. Guess what guys? the hard drive that they sent me was already damaged. What a ****ing company is WD? they sent me a piece a junk. I called yesterday and they will send me another one, hopefully this time will not be another junk. I am done with WD, I will never ever again going to buy another WD product.

They all have their bad batches every now and then. Quantum, Seagate, Maxtor, WD, etc....

[d4rk5ky]

Never had a problem with any WD drive iv owned :)

[JodyWatts]

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

Funny, in my 16 years as a Network Engineer .. I haven't had to "bump heads" with Seagate.

Like has been stated .. all companies have their problems.

[The_Observer]

im using my first WD640Gig drive... ive been a Seagate fan for about 15+ years.... have had nothing wrong with my WD640Gig drive.

[majortom1981]

All our dell machines att work have seagates and they have all been dying. dell has been sending us velociraptors to replace our dying seagate hdd's.

So far i hate seagate with a passion. Havent had any luck with their hdd's

[MR_Candyman]

All our dell machines att work have seagates and they have all been dying. dell has been sending us velociraptors to replace our dying seagate hdd's.

So far i hate seagate with a passion. Havent had any luck with their hdd's

I call bull on this. They wouldn't send you velociraptors, they're too expensive. There's also no need for drives that fast on workstations, and they don't work well as server drives because they use too much power and produce too much heat.

[r4dius]

I wish I bumped into this thread prior to ordering my Seagate replacement hard drive for my 2 year old Macbook! The drive failed just last week. Looks like everyone praises WD > Seagate, damn! :p

[MR_Candyman]

I wish I bumped into this thread prior to ordering my Seagate replacement hard drive for my 2 year old Macbook! The drive failed just last week. Looks like everyone praises WD > Seagate, damn! :p

Not me, They're really the same reliability, despite the bias people show in here, and depite me only ever having WD drives fail.

[r4dius]

I guess it's a debate that will never be won than I suppose? I can't keep track of my hard drive failure record. It's up there.

[MR_Candyman]

I guess it's a debate that will never be won than I suppose? I can't keep track of my hard drive failure record. It's up there.

I find that people who have an unusually high number of drives die have external factors which cause it. A bad power supply, cheap motherboard that doesn't regulate usb power well, unstable home power, knocking the computer around, especially when it's running...they're all common causes of drive failure. People just choose to bash a manufacturer rather than using their brains

[RAID 0]

I find that people who have an unusually high number of drives die have external factors which cause it. A bad power supply, cheap motherboard that doesn't regulate usb power well, unstable home power, knocking the computer around, especially when it's running...they're all common causes of drive failure. People just choose to bash a manufacturer rather than using their brains

There is too much truth in that statement. You making my heads hurts!

[voidpharoh]

I find that people who have an unusually high number of drives die have external factors which cause it. A bad power supply, cheap motherboard that doesn't regulate usb power well, unstable home power, knocking the computer around, especially when it's running...they're all common causes of drive failure. People just choose to bash a manufacturer rather than using their brains

Indeed, I've noticed that as well. One of my friends has an average lifespan of 4-8 months on every drive he gets his hands on. He's just brutally irresponsible with his computer.

I've been fairly careful with my drives, I can't recall how many I've actually had die on me but I'm fairly certain I could count on one hand the actual true drive malfunctions I've had in the past 15 years. One of which was caused by my own negligence, first SATA drive that I owned... I learned very quickly some SATA connectors on certain drives weren't made very solid at all....oops. The replacement drive I got was was a slightly different model though, with much more plastic to secure the cable around the connector.

[Grex]

I find that people who have an unusually high number of drives die have external factors which cause it. A bad power supply, cheap motherboard that doesn't regulate usb power well, unstable home power, knocking the computer around, especially when it's running...they're all common causes of drive failure. People just choose to bash a manufacturer rather than using their brains

I also agree with this post. I have been using WD drives fro years now and have been happy so far.

Actually, i just bought two 160GB drives that i setup in a raid 0. After about a month one of them failed. I did a quick RMA with WD and got the new drive. Had a problem re-creating the raid group. Got forwarded to Level2 and got the issue resolved. It was handled with one phone call and no more than an hour of my time.

Side Note: Turns out i needed to write zero's on both drives to re-setup raid. WD has some nice basic disk utilities.

[cabron]

I find that people who have an unusually high number of drives die have external factors which cause it. A bad power supply, cheap motherboard that doesn't regulate usb power well, unstable home power, knocking the computer around, especially when it's running...they're all common causes of drive failure. People just choose to bash a manufacturer rather than using their brains

I agree with you, however it is not my case. The hard drive came from the factory already damaged because I tested it and was not working. I received yesterday another HD replacement and so far working like charm. It is not my fault that they sent me something non-working. I am happy now with my new HD.

[torrentthief]

could be your motherboard and fault and not the drive(s).

[cabron]

could be your motherboard and fault and not the drive(s).

read above what I wrote ;)

[majortom1981]

I call bull on this. They wouldn't send you velociraptors, they're too expensive. There's also no need for drives that fast on workstations, and they don't work well as server drives because they use too much power and produce too much heat.

Do you want me to pull a couple of them out of our gx620's and show you ? I can get a pic of the old seagate drives and the new velociraptors dell is sending us.

I am not lying . Maybe its because we do a ton of business . we order like 20 machines at a shot.

[MR_Candyman]

Do you want me to pull a couple of them out of our gx620's and show you ? I can get a pic of the old seagate drives and the new velociraptors dell is sending us.

I am not lying . Maybe its because we do a ton of business . we order like 20 machines at a shot.

Umm...I do a ton of business with dell as well, and while their service is good, they have never gone overkill like that. There is NO reason to have velociraptors in those machines. The seagate drives are just fine, and I have yet to have any die in ours.

[Bgnn32]

All my systems that I built have WD drives, Heck I have one from the early 90's and still runs perfectly. I can't say I have had positive experices with Toshiba, Segate or Samsung.

Do you want me to pull a couple of them out of our gx620's and show you ? I can get a pic of the old seagate drives and the new velociraptors dell is sending us.

I am not lying . Maybe its because we do a ton of business . we order like 20 machines at a shot.

LOLOLOL 20 machines per order isn't a ton of business for Dell.

[LucK!]

Never had a problem with WD.

[BillyJack]

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..

I agree. You will see that everyone is has a favorite and hates another or the others and everyone has their own opinion. But all of those companies have bad batches at times and that is where some people feel strongly against that brand becuase of their misfortune.

Then you also have cases like yours where you got a bad drive and then got really unlucky and got another bad drive. Now you hate WD and you will no longer buy their drive. Lets say you are now going with Seagate. Years from now you will swear Seagate is the best and that WD sucks. As for your experience Seagate will more likely be the best because you will continue to buy their products and lets say you never get a bad drive from them. Now to you Seagate is the best in the world and WD is the worst.

Everyone has experiences like this where one manufacturer is the best and one is the worst.

As for my experience. I had IBM hard drives last forever. Then I went with maxtor because they started to produce a lot of drives and a great price. I had three out of four die within two years. So then I switched to WD because they started to manufacturer more hard drives at a great price. I had 5 out of six die within the first year. During all of that time I had bought a many Hitachis and Seagates for me or family and everyone of them is still good except one Seagate that died within two years. So who do you think I think is the best, the worst and in second place?

I think Hitachi is the best and Seagate is the second best. I have no experience with Samsung and other brands. I think WD is the worst because they all died the fastest. I also steer clear of maxtor because I had so many die within two years.

But what I have learned to do is utilize the internet and see what models per brand are failing the most. Those are the bad batches. You will also see the prices fall drastically for those models and discounts offered. Those are the drives people end up buying the most.

I can gurantee that no matter what brand or model you are looking at they all have a percent of that model that fails or is dead on arrival (DOA). So I would not freak out with one bad drive. I would just realize I was unlucky just like I was recently. I bought a Hitachi and it was DOA. I am currently waiting for a replacement.

No I do not hate Hitachi. It was just my misfortune.

That is my perspective about all of this.

[KeeperOfThePizza]

Last time I did an RMA with WD they were great. They even let me do the speedy RMA where they send you a new hard drive first and I send my old one in later.

yeah but they put a $89.00 hold on a credit card =/

[MR_Candyman]

yeah but they put a $89.00 hold on a credit card =/

They all do this

[cabron]

Well, when I told then that the HD that they sent me was damaged they speedy up the order without asking for credit card. That's good customer services!

[+shift. MVC]

I can gurantee that no matter what brand or model you are looking at they all have a percent of that model that fails or is dead on arrival (DOA). So I would not freak out with one bad drive. I would just realize I was unlucky just like I was recently. I bought a Hitachi and it was DOA. I am currently waiting for a replacement.

No I do not hate Hitachi. It was just my misfortune.

That is my perspective about all of this.

If there ever comes a company with a 0.00% failure rate on their hard drives, WD, Seagate, Hitachi etc. are in a world of hurt :rofl: