western-digital hard-drive are shite

[3dot...]

they self-destruct after a year approx.
my backup drive just died after a power surge..

[cotdagoo]

still using an ide wd drive from about 5 years ago.. no self destruct

i'd maybe never get one again if i had a bunch completely die after a year.. but just one? and after a power surge? did you not have a surge protector of some sort?

[oblique strategies]

My old WD drives are running fine, but they are LOUD! I use them only for backup & other storage, but not for production.

I will never buy another LaCie drive after having three of them die at various times! No way.

I like the Samsung drives, & pop them in firewire 800 enclosures from RadTech.

[ark]

I have four Western Digital drives in my desktop machine. Completely trouble-free, and quiet.

So maybe there are random variations, or some models are better than others.

[3dot...]

'mybook'... garbage..

[leedsquietman]

Given 3dot's experience with WD, I wouldn't buy any more WD if I were him too.

However, I have had good luck with them and Maxtor and bad luck with Seagate. I think it varies from person to person, but I don't blame him for his opinion.

3dot ... have you tried writing to WD customer service documenting all of your issues. Maybe they'll give you a coupon or a free HD even, I think you deserve something from them given the amount of problems they've caused you.

[cotdagoo]

surge protector used at all? anything else damaged by the same surge?

[3dot...]

surge protector used at all? anything else damaged by the same surge?

yes I use a surge protector.. and nothing else was damaged...
the thing is it loads but says I need to format in order to use...
will try that and maybe use 'recuva' after..see what I can salvage..

[cotdagoo]

surge protector used at all? anything else damaged by the same surge?

yes I use a surge protector.. and nothing else was damaged...
the thing is it loads but says I need to format in order to use...
will try that and maybe use 'recuva' after..see what I can salvage..

dang, that definitely does suck.

maybe try partition find and mount (http://findandmount.com/ awesome domain name to boot). i had my master boot record corrupted on a drive after an improper shutdown and had windows telling me it had to format in order to use - tried find & mount and recovered easily 99-100% of my data (haven't gone through every single file to ensure it's integrity but most seem fine).

[3dot...]

surge protector used at all? anything else damaged by the same surge?

yes I use a surge protector.. and nothing else was damaged...
the thing is it loads but says I need to format in order to use...
will try that and maybe use 'recuva' after..see what I can salvage..

dang, that definitely does suck.

maybe try partition find and mount (http://findandmount.com/ awesome domain name to boot). i had my master boot record corrupted on a drive after an improper shutdown and had windows telling me it had to format in order to use - tried find & mount and recovered easily 99-100% of my data (haven't gone through every single file to ensure it's integrity but most seem fine).

bah ..doesn't work for windows7.. thanks anyways..

[stonee]

I've had problem with WD power supplies, but never the drives. i've had the same drive for 3 years with no problems.

check your power supplies before you trash your drives! they're really inexpensive to order from WD's site.

[mihai]

i have two wd mybook. one that's 3 years old and the second (my main external used via esata) which is 2 years old. the only issue i've had was due to fat32 when i initially got the first one.

[Silverfish]

Just wanted to share my experience with WD mybook drives.

I had a 500GB drive crap out after a year. It was still under warranty, so they sent a replacement. The replacement crapped out within a year.

I will NEVER buy a WD hard drive again.

My Samsung spinpoint is still purring.

[sporkles]

Damn... I'm getting nervous here: I use a WD Passport for my quick backups, and a Lacie for my Itunes library, and I hear so
much bad stuff about them both - especially the Lacies. I've got an off-site internal Samsung drive for secondary backup, but
I don't get to make that trip too often.

[SubFunk]

same experience here... never ever again a WD drive, loud and crap!

seagate or previous maxtor (now belongs to seagate) all the way for audio, quietest drives around superb performance...

but it is as leeds says, a very individual experience... HDs are so utterly 'random' in there performance (ALL of them), that's why a backup less then 2 - 3 times is plain suicide... you never know when those shit things collapse, ANY of them and ANY given time... even a glyph drive.