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

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?

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.

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.

'mybook'... garbage..

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.

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

cotdagoo wrote: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..

3dot... wrote:

cotdagoo wrote: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).

cotdagoo wrote:

3dot... wrote:

cotdagoo wrote: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..

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.