Why I hate WD (a mini..umm..rant?)

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SirKenin

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I have a WD Raptor and WD1600JD in one of my computers. The Raptor is fine. It's a great drive. It should be for the $300 I paid for it. The other one is a Caviar SE. I haven't had it a year. And guess what? It's screwed. It fails the WD diagnostics. How many bloody WD drives have I lost now? I can't even count them. Dozens and dozens. I've lost so much money on them it makes me hurl. Always within the first year. Damnit I'm pissed off. That was my data drive. My "dump". I even labelled it "Big Dump".

It's always performed like the piece of crap that it is, but I wasn't demanding performance out of it and to be truthful for the $100 I spent on it I didn't expect a whole hell of a lot out of it. The only reason I bought it was because that was all they had in stock on that day and I didn't feel like making a second trip. I was only dumping junk on it anyways. Well, in true testament to WD quality, the damn thing can't even handle that much.

Geez!!! Now I have to RMA it. More money lost on WD. Sorry, but that just makes me mad. :mad: It's an inconvenience for me that I shouldn't have to put up with. I have Maxtors in my file server that are 6 years old and still going strong, and this piece of crap can't even make it 12 months.

That will be the LAST time I EVER buy a WD drive unless it's another Raptor or RE. Ever. I'll buy a Fujitsu before I buy another one of these shitboxes. I have already stopped selling them to my clients. So much for my "Western Digital Approved Reseller" certificate. BAH!!!! Now I won't even buy one for myself, regardless of the application. I don't care if I have to draw the data on a piece of paper with a pencil. At least I know that unless I throw the paper out it will be more reliable than this piece of garbage.

I have a damn good mind to just eat the loss and take a hammer to the thing. What a load of crap. There's a little birdie in my house, and it's aimed right at WD.
 
Oh. And. Umm. Please. Don't post "I have a WD and it's fine" or "I've never had any troubles with them" or "I've got a friend who has a friend" or whatever. I don't care. No. Really. I don't. Before you even start, I've been selling WD since 1999. This frustration has been building for seven years. :eek: I have the same beef with models from other manufacturers too, such as Hitachi/IBM (were they sniffing glue when they released the Deathstar?), Fujitsu (the best thing that ever came out of a Fujitsu factory was an empty box) and those horrible DiamondMax 8 (ok. They had a good use. You could take all the guts out of them and use them as a cigarette holder) and Fireball 3s (at the rate those buggers self destructed I'm surprised I never saw one go up in flames) or whatever the hell they were pieces of crap that pretended to be harddrives.

I guess I just needed to vent to someone. It was better than kicking the crap out of the computer, don't you agree? ;)
 
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My friends WD is fine. :P

As for kicking the crap out of a computer, I think that may actually be against the rules here, so good choice :D Also, I prefer kicking the crap out of a punching bag.
 
You think that's bad? I had about 6 Maxtor harddrives die one me! I purchased a 30GB around 1999 or so, and they just kept failing. Maxtor would replace it, even upgraded me to a 40GB, but they acted up too. I finally sold my last 40GB I had RMAed to a friend and warned him of my troubles. And, just so you don't think it's anything I've done, I spoke with him and the drive failed on him, too!

After that I was a diehard Seagate fan, but then I had two 160G drives die in one week(one at work, system wouldn't even POST, then my new build) Though my 80GB in my enclosure's doing well...?

Western Digital has been good for me, though I wonder about my current drive. It runs fine, but every so often I hear a "CLICK" from the case. It doesn't sound like the HD, but it really can't be anything else... Eh, I'll just run it until it dies I guess :P

I don't know what drive I'll get next, but probably not one of these "top" brands. I hear Samsung has some pretty fair drives...
 
the only problem i have so far with WD is my temperature of my current drive beeing extremely high. (54 - 59*C ) or at least the indicated temp.
It just makes me really nervous. :x
 
Samsung makes an amazing drive.. The Spinpoint T. It's killer.

The Maxtors you had were most likely the DiamondMax 8s. They were the slim, single platter jobs. Pieces of shit. They came in several different capacities, but they were about 3/4 of the height of a normal drive. They weren't worth the powder to blow them to hell. I lost a zillion of those things. That's what happens when you smoke the cheap crack I guess. You release crappy harddrives. There's a good reason why they hastily cancelled that entire line/concept.

The Maxtors I have are actually rather rare, all things considered. They are the D740Xs. They were a fair bit more expensive than the remainder of the mainstream line, but extremely reliable. They are a phenomonal unit, every bit as good as the Quantum Fireballs of old (I still have a 6.4GB Fireball, and it's still running in my firewall box to this day).

And Chromewell, you're a smartass. hahaha :D
 
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the only problem i have so far with WD is my temperature of my current drive beeing extremely high. (54 - 59*C ) or at least the indicated temp.
It just makes me really nervous. :x
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And that heat is what's going to kill it. It will fail soon enough, mark my words. The more heat a HDD is subjected to, the quicker it fails as a rule. Not always. Just usually.

Funny thing is that I had a fan blowing on mine and it still choked. That's WD for you.
 
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And that heat is what's going to kill it. It will fail soon enough, mark my words. The more heat a HDD is subjected to, the quicker it fails as a rule. Not always. Just usually.

Funny thing is that I had a fan blowing on mine and it still choked. That's WD for you.
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well.. mines mounted directly behind the 140mm intake fan in the front of the case.. :( Damn,.. this is sort of scaring me now :x
 
Heh. Then this will scare you even more. In my file server I had originally stacked the drives on top of each other in the cage. I screwed them in, of course, but there was one on top of the other.

All four of them are D740Xs. An extremely reliable drive, like I said earlier. Well, the heat got to one and killed it. The worst part of it was that I had gigs upon gigs of music and irreplaceable photographs on it. Years of photos and thousands of songs, some very rare and hard to find. And the drive went kaput. Unrecoverable. The BIOS won't even recognize it. Gone. Thankfully I had most of the photos backed up. Luckily all my program/file downloads and nudies (the ones I have can never be replaced. They are now on CD) were on a different drive. lol

Heat will destroy harddrives.

So make sure you make every effort to get as much airflow around it as possible, back up often and hope for the best. Next time don't buy a WD. ;)
 
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SirKenin said:
The Maxtors you had were most likely the DiamondMax 8s. They were the slim, single platter jobs. Pieces of shit. They came in several different capacities, but they were about 3/4 of the height of a normal drive.

The Maxtors I have are actually rather rare, all things considered. They are the D740Xs. They were a fair bit more expensive than the remainder of the mainstream line, but extremely reliable. They are a phenomonal unit, every bit as good as the Quantum Fireballs of old (I still have a 6.4GB Fireball, and it's still running in my firewall box to this day).
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I forget the model right off, but the physical size was no different than your average drive. I actually have some older 1GB Maxtor drives that look identical to the others besides the fact they are silver rather than mostly black.

I've had some great Quantum drives over the years. I actually recently got an 850MB from someone and it's working much better than the other drive in the system(Maxtor :P)

I looked up a bit of info on the D740X. The first pic I saw of one, I thought "Quantum..." The casing is almost identical to old Quantum drives :P hehe, I suppose that's why you brought them up, being purchased by Maxtor and all?
 
If they took the label off them, you would swear up and down that it was a Fireball. They are spitting images of each other. They were also one of the first 7200 RPM drives out on the market IIRC, and the first ATA133 (which was really rather pointless).

I brought them up because they stand as an example of how a HDD SHOULD be made. Buying Quantum really didn't do much for Maxtor that I can see. I could be wrong on that, but I would encourage someone to show me examples of how it benefitted them.

You may have had a Diamond Max Plus 40 or a DiamondMax VL20. If they were 7200RPM they could have been the DiamondMax Plus 6800 or something like that. I dunno. Just a guess.
 
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