Econo-Box

so i got a 500 gigger Sata a while back and right at the one year mark it ---- the bed, well most manufactures have like 2-3 year warranty on this ---- so i gave em a call (I tried to RMA it through NewEgg and they told me they couldn't after 90 but call WD and gave me the number. NewEgg rocks!) and they RMA'd it. well long story short, they do this 180 dollar hold thing which they don't call charging the card but like 75% or grater of the banks do so essentially if you do an Advanced RMA (they send good drive first then you send bad) they charge 180 until they get their drive back. So naturally like the next day when i see 200 hit my CC im like wtf, im already pissed. Now here it is 2 months later and THAT 500 is dead. so i call em up and instead of unleashing the fury on them i calmly explained that i run business from this PC and have a bad taste from last time. I just want my drive but don't want to pay that BS 200 bucks for their faulty product again.

Not only did they say no problem, Advanced RMA for free but they also sent me a free shipping label and get this, upgraded me to a 750 gig model. so WD customer service rocks hopefully their 750 HD will too lol.


Cliffs: WD sold me a shitty 500 gig HD cause it failed in a year. they sent me new one tricked me for 200 bucks but for only a second. then second drive failed 2 months later. WD gave me 750 gig, bypassed temp 200 dollar fee. Chris said Whoo Hoo.

Tom-Guy

I suspect early SATA drives have issues; both of my Hitachi 500 gig drives took dumps, and they are the newest of my 13 HDs. I am disgusted.

sunboost

i have two pata hd's. ones a 320 seagate cuda, and the others a 250 gb maxtor i think. the maxtor has been going on 2-3 years i think. the cuda, is on a comp i hardly ever turn on. so idk.

i bought a sata 400gb cuda for my latest build, hope it doesnt crap out.

jinxy

I have to smack my WD to get the heads to read on startup

bitchM0VE

There is no such thing as a good HD. I swear every one I've ever seen dies a short life. I mean WTF you buy that ---- to keep stuff not waste money and loose it anyways. I don't think there is a real solution.

IntaCooler

im still on floppy disk

Toysrme

WD & Seagate. Anything else is trash.
Same life span. WD's are a nudge faster, Seagates are a nudge quieter.
Ive had WD still working in a backup fileserver in the basement going on 15 years, The only WD or SG that Ive ever had fail was an original release WD raptor. It failed this summer 3 months out of warranty (5y) from being dropped on a concrete floor & rolling down concrete stairs.

It was OOW via their serial tracking system by 3 whole months so I called them and told them the truth about what happened (totally our fault, cousin dropped it and it quit). Lady emailed me a service lable to print out, 2 weeks later I had a newly referbished 36g raptor.




Maxtors have always been the absolute worst drives on the planet. Just because Seagate bought them, do NOT be decieved into thinking anything has changed! Im the bomb and I do know everything about them, regardless; Its standard industry wide knowledge. While I do still have a still operating famous IBM Deathstar 60 GXP, I would not recommend any old IBM drive, or any Hitachi product (they bought IBM's line). They also are terrible hard drives. Neither Samsung, nor Fujitsu are anything special.

In short... If it's not a WD or SG it ------- sucks outside of scsi

Toysrme

Oh, and HD's last alot longer if they are never powered down. Short of a laptop using a battery profile, never set your hard drive to turn off, or sleep.

FrodoGT

Im going on a little over 2 yrs with my 10k rpm WD raptor drive. Best and fastest drive ive ever seen/had hands down. Sounds like a jet spooling up lol.