Recent Bad Luck with Western Digital

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sanitarium16

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I've had a sting of bad luck with Western Digital hard drives and im wondering if anyone else has. First the computer i built for my mom WD1600JS hard drive failed after 5 months in Jan 08, then my Raptor 150's crapped out in the beginning of March after 2 years and now a computer i built for a family friend WD1600YS RE, crapped out after 8 months (both HDs, besides the raptors were made in thailand). I'm second guessing using them in anymore future builds (except raptors).
 
well they have a lower failer rate @ my Air National Guard unit.

friend of mine had two 250gb drives in raid 0 and one of the drives had the pcb fry on it.

"life is like a box of chocolates, u never know what u gonna get"

so far my 4 WD drives are working good after 4 years.
 
Yeah over the last couple years I've had increasingly bad luck with them. I had a 74GB Raptor die on me. I got that replaced, then I lost two 74GB Raptors, and then I now have 2 150GB Raptors that are showing signs that they might be about to fail.
 
I have had drives fail from every manufacturer, except IBM. I still have one death star (IBM) that runs fine.
 
Every hard drive will fail but these are definatley failing prematurely. My next builds will most likely have Seagate hard drives instead of WD, never had a problem witht them.
 
sanitarium16 said:
Every hard drive will fail but these are definatley failing prematurely. My next builds will most likely have Seagate hard drives instead of WD, never had a problem witht them.
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Well I've had nothing but problems out of Seagate IDE drives. Their SATA drives have been good to me so far so those are my non-Raptor drives of choice. Though currently I've got an external drive that's a Western Digital and two 500GB Western Digital SE16 drives that are working well thus far.

The intermitent failures I was having out of my 150GB Raptors seem to have dissappeared after I changed their locations in the case giving them more air flow. Hopefully this continues to be the case.
 
When I worked as a sys admin, I never had problems with my seagate or WD drives (both sata and ide), but had problems with everyone else. I tend to think that as long as I go with one of them, I'm fine...
 
I've never had problems with Seagates or WD. Perhaps with all those failures you should look at your PSU being the culprit of so many failures. ;)
 
I've had problems with all brands, but the least with Seagate and WD.
Of the 11 drives attached to my main machine, 8 are WD, 2 are Seagate, and 1 is a Maxtor. maxtor was on sale locally when I needed a drive so I bought it. Oldest drives in my system are probably 5 years old now and are the WD 250gig units.

Anyone remember Micropolis? they were great and then they did something in the manufacturing to save money (maybe moved to another country) and then reliability went down the crapper and they got a really bad rep. They fixed their reliability problems, but it was too late, no one wanted a Microplis branded drive.
Similar thing happened with the IBM Deskstars aka Deathstar drives.

About your problem, the only thing common between the 3 failures is you.
did you observe all protocols when assembling and maintaining these machines?
 
Zepher said:
I've had problems with all brands, but the least with Seagate and WD.
Of the 11 drives attached to my main machine, 8 are WD, 2 are Seagate, and 1 is a Maxtor. maxtor was on sale locally when I needed a drive so I bought it. Oldest drives in my system are probably 5 years old now and are the WD 250gig units.

Anyone remember Micropolis? they were great and then they did something in the manufacturing to save money (maybe moved to another country) and then reliability went down the crapper and they got a really bad rep. They fixed their reliability problems, but it was too late, no one wanted a Microplis branded drive.
Similar thing happened with the IBM Deskstars aka Deathstar drives.

About your problem, the only thing common between the 3 failures is you.
did you observe all protocols when assembling and maintaining these machines?
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Yes. I have a machine i built for my brother and couisn, they have WD hard drives and they have not failed. My brothers is over a year old and my cousins is coming up on a year. My fiances sister has a Sony which is over 2 years old. The hard drive in that (which was a western digital) crapped out after a year and a half. Im not a NOOB when it comes to building/maintaing systems.
 
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