[Nerwin]

Just wandering

I Have a Western Digital 250 Gb SATA-150 I love it!

[aspenjim]

WD all the way, cept Seagate now offers 5 year warranty

[Aegis]

Can't really beat 2 x WD Raptors in RAID 0 can you ?

[jcarle]

aspenjim, on Jan 8 2006, 10:33 PM, said:

WD all the way, cept Seagate now offers 5 year warranty

So does Western Digital on all Enterprise level (Raid Edition and Raptors) drives.

[LLXX]

I have a pair of WDs too. Works very well

[N1K]

I have two SATA Maxtor 80GB disks and I'm very satisfied, but occasionally I'm hearing strange clicks from this disks, but disks report no errors. I read somewhere that this is normal behaviour for Maxtor disks..
When I hear strange clicks on disks I know that disk working time is near end..

[Maleko]

Swear by WD, had to many problems in the past with Maxtor.

[Nerwin]

I Also had to many problems with my old maxtor 160gb hard drive and I could not return it so I took it out of my computer and smash it on the floor into bunch of pieces, so then i bought a WD 250Gb SATA-150 Never had any problems with it.

[Maleko]

lol, the joy of beating a broken hard drive!

when i was working at a online computer supplier, we had mostly maxtors back...

[Jeremy]

Aegis, on Jan 8 2006, 11:20 PM, said:

Can't really beat 2 x WD Raptors in RAID 0 can you ?

I don't think the speed of the drive is what makes it a good HD. I'm not picky about the speed. My 2.5 year old WD 120 GB recently died and I got a Seagate SATA 80GB NCQ 8MB 11MS from NCIX and it's very fast.
Also, it depends on whether or not you take care of your drive. If you never defragment or defrag once a year, your drive will bail on you in 3 years instead of 5, for example, I think. What makes a drive a good one, i think, is how durable and reliable it is. Hell, Seagate came up with NCQ. I voted for Seagate.

[jcarle]

The WD Raptor has speed combined with enterprise level quality and a 5 year warranty. I'm sorry, but the fastest SATA drive on the market combined with quality and 5 years? You can't beat that.

[Maleko]

Totally right jcarle, I'd love some raptor drives...

you want these now jcarle:

Western Digital Raptor 150GB WD1500ADFD 10,000RPM SATA 16MB


oh yes...but at over £200....

[jcarle]

I'm already looking at changing my two 74GB with two 150GB, but that's going to have to wait a little. New car payment = less upgrade cash.

[sonu27]

I chose WD but Seagate just as the same.

500GB HDD from Seagate looks very good, and perform well I have heard.

[Andromeda43]

I bought A WD SATA drive in June 2005. Since then I've had to replace it three times.
I'm currently using a Maxtor SATA 160gig., with NO problems.

Most of the tech's I rub elbows with recognize that WD's quality is just NOT there, and to preserve their own reputations, they just won't use WD drives.

WD has several different plants in different countries, most are in the far east.
The last RMA drive I got back from WD was made in Malaysia and was badly scratched like it had been kicked accross a cement floor. I won't even use it. Someone want a freebee?

Cheers,
Andromeda43

[ringfinger]

Loyal WD follower as well.

[RJARRRPCGP]

Maleko, on Jan 9 2006, 08:01 AM, said:

Swear by WD, had to many problems in the past with Maxtor.

I disagree!! All of my Maxtor HDDs have been reliable, even a 13 GB 7,200 RPM one from 1999!!

Most of the HDDs that I came across with having the dreaded bad sectors and dreaded click of death were Western Digital!!

This post has been edited by RJARRRPCGP: 16 February 2006 - 03:55 PM

[Maleko]

RJARRRPCGP, on Feb 16 2006, 09:54 PM, said:

Maleko, on Jan 9 2006, 08:01 AM, said:

Swear by WD, had to many problems in the past with Maxtor.

I disagree!! All of my Maxtor HDDs have been reliable, even a 13 GB 7,200 RPM one from 1999!!

Most of the HDDs that I came across with having the dreaded bad sectors and dreaded click of death were Western Digital!!

must be one in a milltion then

[Scubar]

bought a maxtor, it completely failed after 6months, on my replacement one now and its still abit strange, makes alot of noise compared to my old ones.

id have to say WD are my fave

[RJARRRPCGP]

ScubaSteve, on Feb 16 2006, 07:35 PM, said:

bought a maxtor, it completely failed after 6months, on my replacement one now and its still abit strange, makes alot of noise compared to my old ones.

id have to say WD are my fave

Wow!! I can't believe that!! But that sure seems to be common with used Western Digital HDDs, even if only a few years old!!

I often see bad sectors on Western Digital HDDs.

But, I did have bad luck with a Seagate HDD, it started emitting squeaks when there was a lot of seeking and SMART monitoring utilities were saying that a failure was expected in a short time!!

This post has been edited by RJARRRPCGP: 28 February 2006 - 04:54 PM