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August 7th, 2001, 12:41 PM
#1
 Western Digital
What do you think about it?
Everytime I help somone or try to fix somthing with one of THOSE* things in the computer their always problems. Is it a best buy thing? I never heard of this hard drive untill best buy sold them. Will my warning is, never buy a Western Digital Hard Drive.
"Nothing but problems"
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August 10th, 2001, 09:18 PM
#2
western digital was once king of the hard drives. it seems the quality has gone down. i find maxtor and ibm drive to be the best now.
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August 11th, 2001, 03:26 PM
#3
Registered User
WDs are fine. Maxtors are fine. IBMs are pretty sweet. All others, I tend to stay away from.
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August 11th, 2001, 04:19 PM
#4
WD's were once THE **** now they are just...****..hehe
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August 11th, 2001, 07:03 PM
#5
Registered User
ALL hard drives (with the exception of JTS, may they RIP - rest in pieces  ) make good quality hard drives. All of the manufacturers have put out a few bad batches which ends up ruining their reputation. That's why one person says "WD is great but Seagate sucks" and another says "Seagate rocks but WD is rubbish."
Most PC makers, whether they be small time shops or huge OEM's like Dell or HP, tend to buy their hard drives (and other components) in batches and usually from the same manufacturer. So the chance of getting a lot of bad drives in one single shipment is likely since they're made in batches with similar quality. Hence the bad experiences and brand-loyalty that most people have had with one drive or the other.
If one HD manufacturer continually manufactured bad drives, do you think they would stay in business for very long? Especially when there is plenty of competition and tight profit margins? I think not.
Saying one hard drive manufacturer is better than another is saying that Chev is better than Ford because Ford made the Pinto. It's absurd.
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August 11th, 2001, 07:16 PM
#6
Registered User
In four years I have only had to RMA one HD and that was a Maxtor. I agree with MacGyver there will be a bad apple occasionaly. I have never had a bad experience with WD and my experience with the Maxtor does not preclude me from recommending them. I do disagree with MacGyver on one point however; Chrysler is better because Ford made the Pinto and Chevy made the Vega meanwhile Chrysler always has made great products, oh err...except the Omni, the early K-Cars, the...ah never mind! 
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August 12th, 2001, 04:59 PM
#7
Adm¡nistrator
People say IBM drives are very reliable so I ordered one...
only recently did I find out about the frequent failures with the GMR heads...
wtf is up with that?
As for me..never tried WD..had a Hitachi fail on me 4 times before the whole drive refused to initialize. Own an IBM 10gig desktop drive (very old) with some probs, 20 gig Maxtor, runs like a champ, and my 20 gig IBM notebook drive runs just great.
Anyone else hear about the IBM issues? with the 60 and 75gxp models
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August 13th, 2001, 07:46 PM
#8
Registered User
In full agreement with MacGyver.......Just pulled a bunch of small Western Digital drives at my favorite junkyard these guys had been in the weather for at least 6 months and had been thrown off the back of a truck into a pile and 9 out of ten worked perfectly.......go figure
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August 13th, 2001, 11:39 PM
#9
Been building systems since Hard Drives were first introduced. Yes, MacGuyver is absolutely correct. Of the major brands still out there (Western Digital, Maxtor, Seagate, IBM, Fujitsu) Fujitsu is the only one I've never seen fail (too bad they seem to be slow). I can remember three times in all these years that WD had a problem with a specific batch/model but based on total numbers of dead drives of all brands I've seen over the years, I still rank WD #1.
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August 14th, 2001, 06:59 AM
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Registered User
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August 14th, 2001, 07:00 AM
#11
Registered User
[quote]Originally posted by Mad Machinist:
<strong>Just pulled a bunch of small Western Digital drives at my favorite junkyard these guys had been in the weather for at least 6 months and had been thrown off the back of a truck into a pile and 9 out of ten worked perfectly.......go figure</strong><hr></blockquote>
Those are the ones that have actually been torture-tested!
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August 15th, 2001, 07:42 AM
#12
Registered User
JungleMan,I thought all the major manufactures now use the GMR technology licensed from IBM?
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