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WESTERN DIGITAL WD800JBRTL Caviar Special Edition Internal 80GB Hard Drive| Manufacturer: | Western Digital | | Our price: | |
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| WESTERN DIGITAL WD800JBRTL Caviar Special Edition Internal 80GB Hard Drive |
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Two Failed WD80 GB HDD in one Year |
For many years I used and recommended the WD products. I can no longer offer any such advice but would recommend that anyone looking for a quality HDD look elsewhere -- Seagate, Maxtor, Samsung, Hitachi are all superior drives and far more reliable.
Both drives simply suffered meltdown failure of the motors, shorting out the computer Power supply until removed-- two different computers at two different times, both being used moderately, not "heavy office" or workstation use. Western Digital was useless and insisted that such failures are rare and likely due to abuse. They know that the 80 GB Drives are faulty and they refuse to "fess up." The government should order a recall and everyone should get a credit to buy some other brand of drive. Even when HD drives were delicate in the early 80's, I never had any just burn up like these bits of WD paperweights. My current favorite recommendation is the new Seagate 160 GB and 250 GB drives, fast, quiet and reliable. |
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HD Okay, software not so great |
| I have no problem so far with the HD. It seems to do its job well, and is quite responsive (quicker than my Maxtor). As far as the Data Lifeguard software...apparently due to some Windows updates, I am unable to use my PowerQuest DriveCopy 4.0 to mirror my old drive to the new (a "Disk Manager" conflict). I had to use the Data Lifeguard, and although it did fine, it created a partition that I did not want. It wouldn't allow me to change the partition sizes, or delete the undesired partition. Since I had to get the data copied, I had to go with that, and will have to address the partition issue separately. Anyway, I'm not too thrilled with the Data Lifeguard software, but the drive is fine. It has a very distinct (yet quiet) sound. |
| Western Digital - WESTERN DIGITAL WD800JBRTL Caviar Special Edition Internal 80GB Hard Drive |
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Do not buy a Western Digital HD |
| I bought this hard drive thinking it would be good because Western Digital was a good name that you could trust. It works fine for the first 6 months and those of you who just bought it might think I'm dead wrong, but just wait. Everything begins to go wrong, and I've taken every precaution to make sure it stops messing up. Nothing works. I have to reformat every month because it doesn't want to work for some reason. Do NOT get this drive, it will give you fits. And this isn't because I had a defective drive, I exchanged it for a different HD and had similar problems. I recently bought a new hard drive from Maxtor. Maxtor seems to be making good hard drives. I've had no problems with the 160GB drive and it works wonders compared to the WD drive. Those of you looking for a new hard drive, do not be fooled by this one. |
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