Fuck WD drives for serious.

[Executioner213]

I must be the only person who has Maxtor drives that have not failed yet. The only other one I have is a WD external and its pretty new.

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Drives I have/ have owned:

WD X 3 (I still have one)
Seagate X 1
Maxtor 1 touch X 2

2 out of the 3 WD drives have died (1 internal and 1 external). The seagate has been good for 3 years, one of the maxtors have been good for 1.5 years and the newest maxtor is unknown because it is a sentury safe drive (so fire and water proof).

 

[2000ContourSVT]

All HD's will fail eventually. I do all my work on my Macbook and I have 2 external hard drives that I use for backup. They both have the exact same data. I do my work and then immediately after I get done I back what I did up on both drives. It's a bit of a pain but it's not very likely that both drives will go out at the same time. If you have a desktop you can do essentially the same thing by running 2 hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration.

 

[LSD-Studio]

bought a 200gigs WD 10.000 Raptor a year ago since 7.200 couldn't handle the fuckload of Alestorm Tracks....

after about 1 month of using it (if that) the WD died. whenever I'm working from that HD the Mac just freezes every now and then.
The store I bought it from told me they'd send it to WD to have it checked and repaired but that may take 6 month.

No WD for me anymore!

 

[Torniojaws]

ALL mechanical hard drives WILL break, no matter who manufactured it. It is only a matter of time, and even that is completely random due to their mechanical nature. The way forward is solid state drives, but even they have limited rewrites. However, they are a helluva lot better in reliability, since they have no moving parts at all.

 

[-Gavin-]

bought a 200gigs WD 10.000 Raptor a year ago since 7.200 couldn't handle the fuckload of Alestorm Tracks....

Those were good times !

 

[Ronnie_Rocker]

i have the same problem. i bought a WD 500gb drive, it broke after 2 months. i recived a new driver (same size, same everything), it broke down a couple of weeks ago. no more WD drives for me.

 

[Trevoire520]

I had a WD mybook that died on me within 2 months of using it. Lost a fuckload of data, luckily I didn't have any projects on at the time so none of the data was needed. Still gutting though.
Got a replacement from WD and its been trouble free so far, but I still think I'm gonna back everything up to another drive or DVD's soon.

 

[coneyis]

I too went through WD hell... I bought a 180G WD Passport last year (Black Friday Sale) and the fucker crapped out on me over the summer. I had just finished backing up data that I was able to save from other old hard drives and then like I punch in the face I lost it all.

I've learned my lesson and now I back up everything from my laptop to 2 external hard drives. I've got a 500G Mac Time Capsule which is the best investment I've made along with a 500G WD MyBook (Yeah I'm takin a chance!).

 

[-Noodles-]

I try and never use drives over 200Gb, and if i have to - I won't fill them over 50% capacity.

My WD drives have been solid, but the internal one (4 years old) on my PC just died.. and my girlfriends Maxor external drive died not that long ago.

Like someone said - all drives will fail, due to their mechanics, it's just how much you use them (and their heads) that will reduce their lifespan. So if you're using drives often, for long periods, consider buying smaller drives and changing them often.

Yeah it IS a pain in the ass to keep changing drives, but at the same time, you'll be ensuring that there's always going to be a working drive for each project / 200Gb.

 

[musickey]

Maxtors = shit, only drives that haven't failed on me are WD.

+1 We had some real lowend dell workstations at my previous job, All with Maxtors in them, and all 6 machines drives failed within the first year. I get a new job which is my current one, I happen to notice the 2 receptionist's machines are the same as my previous job, needles to say they both crashed, and the IT guys replaced one machines drive with another Maxtor and within 3 months it died. So fuck Maxtor. I have only ran WD in my machines, and have never had problems with any of the 7200 rpm drives i have.

 

[ze kink]

I've never had a HD fail on me, ever. I guess I'm lucky.

I've had a Lacie 250gb external HD for something like 4 years now, and I've never had problems with it. All internal HD's I've had have been fine as well, regardless of brand.

 

[pifos_2]

I use LaCie since 2000: I have four of them and they NEVER failed (I cross my fingers here, it sure could happen but never did).
I tell you more, I dropped from two feet high the little one (80 Gigabytes, the one with the 'Porsche design') twice and it still holds up very well.

my Lacie Prosche model is also really really solid.

 

[Metaltastic]

I've never had a HD fail on me, ever. I guess I'm lucky.

Likewise, and I've used multiple computers that are like 6-7 years old with their original system drives...

 

[Randyisgod15]

My housemate's WD Mybook just died after a paltry 2 years - and he just got another one to replace it! Some people never learn...

Yup, and those people also forget that their housemate also frequents the same forum. So far no problem with the new 1TB WD, lets just hope it doesn't shit itself again.

 

[Metaltastic]

Yup, and those people also forget that their housemate also frequents the same forum. So far no problem with the new 1TB WD, lets just hope it doesn't shit itself again.

HAhahahhha, oh I knew, hence the evil smiley face :Smokedev:

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Just bought a 500gig seagate barracuda (hey it's the system drive so it doesn't need to be huge). Here is to hoping.

 

[Metaltastic]

Hahaha, to me, 500 IS huge - my aforementioned 3.5 year old Seagate's 150 GB has always been more than enough for me! Mostly cuz I really don't have many videos, which seems to be the space hogger for so many people (and my music library is only 20 GB, cuz I constantly weed through it and get rid of shit I'll never listen to)

 

[TomiR]

ALL mechanical hard drives WILL break, no matter who manufactured it. It is only a matter of time, and even that is completely random due to their mechanical nature. The way forward is solid state drives, but even they have limited rewrites. However, they are a helluva lot better in reliability, since they have no moving parts at all.

Yep, I personally am super satisfied with my OCZ Core series SSL drive. It is insanely fast and totally silent. No moving parts whatsoever.

Solid state drives, that's the way to go!

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

Hahaha, to me, 500 IS huge - my aforementioned 3.5 year old Seagate's 150 GB has always been more than enough for me! Mostly cuz I really don't have many videos, which seems to be the space hogger for so many people (and my music library is only 20 GB, cuz I constantly weed through it and get rid of shit I'll never listen to)

I couldn't find anything less than 300 gig.

Terabyte drives are just a smidge over $200.