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Never buy a Western Digital Hard Drive by matty on 08-15-2004 at 06:23 PM
I am royally pissed off right now at Western Digital. A first I defended their product when people were saying that it sucks. Now I am truly against the product. I bought my 100gb hard drive in November of 2002 and it died in December 2003 so I complained and they replaced it. So I get the new drive and again I get a SMART hard drive failure 5 months after getting the new one. So instead of setting up an RMA now I am waiting to talk to their tech support and complain about their product.
This is just me venting. Oh and unlike the first time I was able to recovery all the data. Gotta love having another 120gb drive to back data up on.
Thanks for listening.
Matty
RE: Never buy a Western Digital Hard Drive by .blade// on 08-15-2004 at 06:53 PM
I have one and haven't had any problems with it...mind you it is my slave but w/e...
RE: Never buy a Western Digital Hard Drive by matty on 08-15-2004 at 06:54 PM
Ya my 120gb Maxtor is my Primary Master and my 100gb Western Digital is my Primary Slave
RE: Never buy a Western Digital Hard Drive by user27089 on 08-15-2004 at 07:06 PM
Thats mucked up, you lost everything! Can't they do something to reimburse you or anything?
RE: Never buy a Western Digital Hard Drive by matty on 08-15-2004 at 07:11 PM
quote:The first time I lost everything, this time I was able to recover what I needed on 2 of the 3 partitions (the 3rd partition was just ghost backups so I was ok)
Originally posted by traxor
Thats mucked up, you lost everything! Can't they do something to reimburse you or anything?
RE: Never buy a Western Digital Hard Drive by lizard.boy on 08-15-2004 at 10:28 PM
yeah and i think that western digital that uses the 39th pin cable in the ide cable to determine which drive is slave. so if you cut that pin to do a mod you loose the functionality of the drive in your system
edit: nope its mostly maxtor that does that. mod guide link
RE: Never buy a Western Digital Hard Drive by lopardo on 08-15-2004 at 10:47 PM
I have an 80GB WD hard drive, no problems at the moment (and I had a 20GB WD hard drive before, never had any problems).
RE: Never buy a Western Digital Hard Drive by .blade// on 08-15-2004 at 10:52 PM
Ya, mine's 120 gb's and I've had it since January, I believe....never any problems...
RE: Never buy a Western Digital Hard Drive by matty on 08-15-2004 at 11:45 PM
I guess its just me with shitty luck from WD. Well I will post a reply of what they say.
RE: Never buy a Western Digital Hard Drive by Moo on 08-16-2004 at 12:43 AM
I have 2 80 GB hard drives... no problems here!
RE: RE: Never buy a Western Digital Hard Drive by Hank on 08-16-2004 at 01:40 AM
quote:
Originally posted by guillaume.lafrance
I have 2 80 GB hard drives... no problems here!
i use Maxtor , my 1st comp i ever had was a maxtor1.3Gig . never any problems with it. the next one after that i got a 6.4Gig Seagate HDD, no problems, then after that i got another Seagate Drive which was a 10. something Gig HDD, no problems at all. then after that i always got a maxtor Drives. i got 2 HDD's both IDE drives. 40Gig for Windows an 80Gig for linux
RE: Never buy a Western Digital Hard Drive by surfichris on 08-16-2004 at 02:49 AM
quote:Welcome to the real world. I had to do an RMA replacement on My WD 80gb hard drive about a month ago. I too had only had it for about a year. I was very satisfied with the replacement procedure and the technical support staff were very friendly at all times. (Mine was a SMART failure too).
Originally posted by Matty.
I am royally pissed off right now at Western Digital. A first I defended their product when people were saying that it sucks. Now I am truly against the product. I bought my 100gb hard drive in November of 2002 and it died in December 2003 so I complained and they replaced it. So I get the new drive and again I get a SMART hard drive failure 5 months after getting the new one. So instead of setting up an RMA now I am waiting to talk to their tech support and complain about their product.