Drives suck
:: Tuesday, October 18th, 2005 @ 3:37:07 pm
:: Tags: Computers
Two more drive failures. I sent a newly swapped (refurbished, probabably) WD drive (I know! they suck.) to Peter, and the thing was DOA. And today, a drive in my printing/scanning machine just failed inexplicably. It’s just… gone. I don’t even use that drive, really. It just sits there, receiving backups every week or so — and still, it failed.
Remember to back up your data, folks. :)
UPDATE I opened up my machine. Take one guess at the brand of the failed drive. Western Digital is useless.
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I’m with ya - WD can rot in hell. I’ve had good luck with IBM/Hitachi over the years, but I think I may try Seagate since they have 5 year warranties.
My sister’s relative designs hard disk drives and he recommends Maxtors and Hitachi drives.
Oops, I meant to say “my sister-in-law” instead of “my sister”. :)