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Offline Octavius

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« on: March 22, 2003, 12:34:21 PM »
September 2002 -> March 2003.  RIP

Best thing is, I find out it's dead when I return from a week's vacation in Florida.  I was LIVID... and still am in a way.  

Sent an e-mail to the site where it was purchased AND to Western Digital.  Hopefully I can get some $$ back as I already have a new identical drive from a local vendor.  

Sigh... out of all the ****ty things to happen to a HD, why me?  heh.  Murphy's Law.. grr
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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2003, 02:08:57 PM »
Since 1994 I will never purchase Western Digital Products. I suggest you do the same. IBM also.
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« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2003, 02:16:47 PM »
I don't use WD drives anymore.  I posted a while back that I have had 3 20 GB drives and 1 40 GB drive die on me recently ... well now the last remaining 20 GB drive has died as well since then.

The 20 GB drives were all WD200BB series drives.  The 40 GB drive was a WD400BB.

On the 20 GB drives the first died after 6 days.  It's replacement from RMA to WD lasted around 5 months.  The replacement for the replacement lasted 6 months.  (I replaced this one with a Seagate.)
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« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2003, 02:18:03 PM »
LOL, my 45 GB IBM 75GXP drive is still running great after 2 years...
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« Reply #4 on: March 22, 2003, 02:30:44 PM »
Octavius...if you can only get a replacement for your dead drive, buy yourself an IDE RAID card and mirror the suckers.  At least your data will be safe then.


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« Reply #5 on: March 22, 2003, 05:48:55 PM »
Bloom same here; 45Gb IBM GXP75 made in some east-european ex-commie country (hmm wa it Romania or Bulgaria, something like that...) is still working like a charm :)
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« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2003, 12:00:52 AM »
Never had an IBM drive die on me. I am still running a 13GB ATA66 IBM drive after nearly 4 years. Hell the thing has run longer than my Maxtor 80GB I bought last spring. I got exactly 8 months out of that one before I had to send it back for RMA.
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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2003, 10:55:41 AM »
Problem is that the failure rate of new drives is shooting WAY WAY up....as evidenced by the piss poor 1 year warrenty crap that started last year.  This is due to a bunch of issues...most of which are because of YOU!


Thats right, all of us have gone after the cheaper and cheaper drives, leaving the quality drives on the shelf to collect dust.  You can still get a premium drive with a 3 year warrenty, but its not going to be $89 after rebate.  As with all things, if you go after the cheapest price to the exclusion of all other concerns...eventually that all that is left...the cheap crap.....need I point out the current joystick market?
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« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2003, 11:32:42 AM »
Alf,

This was my first hard drive purchase and I bought it solely off of recommendations and review reading throughout the net.  I had posted on here back in september and had been told that I would love it.

Trial and error.
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« Reply #9 on: March 23, 2003, 01:22:18 PM »
Thing of it is this ALF. I paid well over $200 for that 80GB drive last year. I paid nearly that for the IBM 13GB I bought that is still humming along. I don't mind paying for the best hard drives but I recall WD drives being pains the butt many moons ago as well.
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« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2003, 05:36:53 PM »
I've had WD, IBM, and Maxtor die on me.  WD JB series is still AFAIK the fastest IDE drive so that's what I'm using.
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« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2003, 05:43:32 PM »
Thats the nature of hard drivers - they are mechanical and prone to failure no matter how reputable the brand is.

Ive had two IBM 60GXP die. An original and the replacement. They performed excellent before death.

I am currently running a Western Digital (100gb, 8mb cache) and its been very reliable so far, knock on wood.

I hope it doesnt die all of the sudden like yours did. At least the IBM's made sounds announcing their death, like a dying person farting and coughing.
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« Reply #12 on: March 24, 2003, 07:25:02 PM »
I threw it inside another machine, booted off a good HD, and I can now somehow access the files.

The old, crap HD is unbootable (bad boot sector?), but I was able to recover most of the important info running File Scavenger from the good HD.  

The old, crap Western Digital is a phantom... works when it feels like it.
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« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2003, 10:50:20 AM »
have Maxtor drives out of five year warranty..still running fine....

Get wife into digital photography.... will need to continue to upgrade disk drives every year...... drives never out of warranty...

Use old systems as backup on home lan..... photos, documents,  music. and pst files are all on at least 3 systems.....

Game machine boots of 10k IBM SCSI drive... runs fast and great for over 2 years........still going....

Also using "Virtual drive" which puts cd images on hard drive...no longer have to search for office,photoshop etc cds.... great program (time saver) when putting new sys together....

Anyone familiar with LAN push programs I wuld like to hear about so can install stuff over LAN....

BTW... have 2800+ running with Swifttech 462.... not as loud as I expected and temp stays at 31..... impressed..... also my 3d scores did not get better going from AMD 2000 to 2800Barton....
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« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2003, 01:23:00 PM »
hehe thanks pulled out a old quantum 30 gig 7200 i had pulled out of a friends comp fried. hard drive telephoned maxtor ( guess they bought them out)


the new one is one the way :)


p.s. have probly used 10 or 12 wd hard drives over last decade have never had a problem at all.
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