Stupid WD HDD!!

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Originally posted by RaWShadow
having 2 drives go bad on you though.. Maybe you could have got them to test it in store after it failed the first time ? Maybe it was a problem with your comp or the drives.

I got them through Newegg, not sure what they do once they get them back for RMAs.

My older drives work fine in my comp for many days. I had them in my PC for over a year. I think it's a bad batch of drives. When Newegg refunds my money I'll go get a Maxtor locally and see if the same thing happens. Maybe my PC doesn't like a drive over 80G?

The PC it was in is the one in my sig... Oh, in case you are wondering, the FSB was not overclocked when I got the second drive because I thought maybe WD drives are real sensitive to PCI clock values. Even so, my FSB was only O/C'd to 138, which equates to a 34.5MHz PCI clock.

 

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I have to say on WD seem to have a split consumer base, those who hate them, those who have no preference and those that love them. Although i suppose this is tru for any product but this has always struck me about WD the most for some reason.

I have used Maxtors for every one of my computers so far, never had a drive go bad, apart from the one i dropped It seems if people have a good experience with a particular brand early on in the computing experience then they tend to stick with them.