Funny you mention this, but I actually only had Maxtors and Seagates fail on me so far... the most recent being a seagate drive
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I honestly think that hard drives are particular to each individual, like an unseen and unspoken karma. We're all destined to be loyal to either WD or Seagate but not both...
I bought 3 Seagate drives in my life and they all died or are dying. I bought 5 WD and they are all fine except the 6-year-old that's dying (but it's been dying for 18+ months!)
So all I can say is stick with the company with which you had the best experience.
Originally Posted by porschedrifter  I'm writing this today in disbelief... In the last 4 months I've had 4 WD drives fail ranging from 1year to 2 months old bought from Newegg and Tigerdirect. 500GB WD Blue (bad sector) 500GB WD Green (clicking and unresponsive) 320GB WD Green (bad sector) and just now a 320GB Blue (spins up and shuts off 2x staying off after) The latter one was from my mothers system and the others are from mine! What in the world is going on? Now i'm extremely hesitant to even use the 500gb WD Blue I just purchased... All drives were under warranty and WD did replace them, but still... This is unacceptible and I'm putting out the warning for others to see. Has anyone else here had their WD drive fail within the last 2 years unexpectedly? Seagate here I come. |
I bought 3 Seagate drives in my life and they all died or are dying. I bought 5 WD and they are all fine except the 6-year-old that's dying (but it's been dying for 18+ months!)
So all I can say is stick with the company with which you had the best experience.
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This may have just been bad luck. WD is still the brand I trust the most.
Originally Posted by porschedrifter I'm writing this today in disbelief... In the last 4 months I've had 4 WD drives fail ranging from 1year to 2 months old bought from Newegg and Tigerdirect. 500GB WD Blue (bad sector) 500GB WD Green (clicking and unresponsive) 320GB WD Green (bad sector) and just now a 320GB Blue (spins up and shuts off 2x staying off after) The latter one was from my mothers system and failed last night! and the others are from mine! Both systems were in separate houses. What in the world is going on? Now i'm extremely hesitant to even use the 500gb WD Blue I just purchased... All drives were under warranty and WD did replace them, but still... This is unacceptible and I'm putting out the warning for others to see. Has anyone else here had their WD drive fail within the last 2 years unexpectedly? Seagate here I come. |
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What models? Black Blue Green... etc?
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That might be true, most of these drives were from newegg... but still...
Originally Posted by corky dorkelson No problems here....10+ drives of my own and 25+ drives for friends/clients, all spinning away just fine. |
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Originally Posted by StrongmanSal I know if ur order them from new egg they are destined to be bad.... bc of the way they package |
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+1 If WD makes you uncomfortable switch to Seagate, Samsung or Hitachi.
This is how I rank the brands in order of which I would trust them.
1. WD
2. Samsung
3. Hitachi
4. Seagate
That order has more to do with the quality of their firmware. Every manufacturer is going to have dead drives. You just have to hope you don't get 4 in a row like you did
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Originally Posted by jigglylizard So all I can say is stick with the company with which you had the best experience. |
This is how I rank the brands in order of which I would trust them.
1. WD
2. Samsung
3. Hitachi
4. Seagate
That order has more to do with the quality of their firmware. Every manufacturer is going to have dead drives. You just have to hope you don't get 4 in a row like you did
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Mostly blues. Couple of blacks.
Originally Posted by porschedrifter What models? Black Blue Green... etc? |
I've got a 1tb barracuda, 400gb barracuda, and a 640 caviar black. None of which have failed me yet
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Well I doubt anyone would vote for a company that was bad. WD has a good reputation because their drives are *usually* great.
I've had one very bad experience with Seagate, I was one of the vitcims of the bad firmware issue, lost all my data (600gb) so I made a big stink, emailed all the execs of Seagate, next day they offered to recover my data for free and send me another drive, so in the end I was pretty happy!
I have a Samsung, Seagate and 3 WD drives.
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I've had one very bad experience with Seagate, I was one of the vitcims of the bad firmware issue, lost all my data (600gb) so I made a big stink, emailed all the execs of Seagate, next day they offered to recover my data for free and send me another drive, so in the end I was pretty happy!
I have a Samsung, Seagate and 3 WD drives.
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