pfft @ everyone who told me to buy this WD drive!

GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 LifeAkron, PA Icrontian
edited February 2004 in Hardware
thats Right!! PFFT!! at you! 3 month old WD 160 SATA drive is totally toast! I wake up turn monitor on then click on IE then FREEZE restart drive wont turn on. IT is completely dead all my info and 10 gig of music is gone! PFFT AT YOU!

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    Yes, pffft at us for you getting screwed by the divine random number generator.

    Pffft at you sir.
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited February 2004
    pfft pfft pfft! PFFFFFFFT! (even tho i dont know what im pfffting at) PFFFFFT!
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    pfft at you! lol
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    Pfft! Of all my WD hard drives I've ever owned, not one has gone bad. I'd still recommend WD to anyone. At least it's under warranty.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    Gnome, you got one of the 5% bad drives. No mfr has 100% perfect QC, the QC needed would double prices for HDs.

    I have, however, had a cable just a tib loose do that, and seen a cable that was almost seated work loose over time (only about a 100X for each). Eventually, the drive activation signal to read never gets to drive, it looks like it is toast but what happened was the cable came more and more loosely connected at drive end and then it suddenly did not work.

    Get ahold of WD directly, they can tell you where and how to get diags for the SATAs and validate or fail it with a quick check that will not wipe data. If it fails, then bad HD is confirmed (and telling tech support the fail code with an already open support track number will get you an RMA that will not give you headaches with drives they do not know are bad and have to stack up and test as they have time), but if it passes after cable connection is in TIGHT on HD, then you might just have a suddenly working drive.

    If drive does not spin up at all, and power of five volt and 12 volt is coming through power cable connected to drive, then ask for an immediate RMA and tell them that. Statisically, LEMONS WILL HAPPEN. Period. "Ain't no perfect HD mfr." Period.

    Sorry you got bit, but life is not perfect.... :D I know, you were blowing off steam, and I do not like it when that happens either..... :( (sympathy icon not among choices...)

    John D.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    yea thats true except EVERY THING that was on it is gone. I mean 10 gigs of music 30 gigs of programs 7 of pron and ever pic from every babe thread i could find all my reviews in progress and all my business stuff. BUT most of all all the pics of fam and friends ive had saved. I got my business backed up like from a week ago so its not that bad from that point but damn it didnt even show any sighs of dieing! normally they start to whine or something then I know " ok start a full backup " but not this time! poof dead!
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    Oh and its def dead man tried 4 diff cables 4 diff slots on the sata and even put it in 3 other pcs. All with the same result,,, NOTHING!

    Right now i am using my 6 gig as my main and starting to redownload everything onto the 60.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    Perhaps WD can repair it by replacing the circuit board. It sounds like the platters and mechanics are still good and your data is thus alive. If you got your hands on another same exact drive, you could swap circuit boards.

    It can't hurt, at this point.
  • CammanCamman NEW! England Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    pfffff , I've had a 30gig western digital drive since like 2000 that has been swapped in and out of machines, dropped, slammed, and messed with so much that I am surprised it even works anymore, sitting here humming along on my computer without a hitch. So, I bought one of their 120gig w/8meg buffer :D Sucks that you had a bad experience with the WD drives, but, as said above, I would definitly recommend them to anyone
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    Camman wrote:
    pfffff , I've had a 30gig western digital drive since like 2000 that has been swapped in and out of machines, dropped, slammed, and messed with so much that I am surprised it even works anymore, sitting here humming along on my computer without a hitch. So, I bought one of their 120gig w/8meg buffer :D Sucks that you had a bad experience with the WD drives, but, as said above, I would definitly recommend them to anyone

    I know where you are coming from there.... The oldest still working WD I have, and it is VIRGIN as to any media errors also, is a 1.2 GB WD drive. My mother's computer only needs the 8.4 GB HD it has, because at 15% full she does not need another bigger one yet. :D

    John D.
  • madmatmadmat
    edited February 2004
    Welcome to my world Gnomie...the 120 in my raid array was just the same way...no noises, whines whirs or odd clunks, it just got flakey booting up about a week before the drive died then nada.
    I just racked it up to a bad oc experience until the drive keeled over...I lost family photos, 50gigs of games and such and about 18gigs of pr0n and music.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    No flakyess tho just poof dead ran fine until then!
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    GnomeWizardd wrote:
    No flakyess tho just poof dead ran fine until then!

    In the time I have been working, overall, have gotten about 5% bad drives from WD. Probably have sold and installed about 300 of them in last 15 years myself, and sold more that other folks installed. More yet sold and\or also installed in 18 years before that.

    John.
  • madmatmadmat
    edited February 2004
    Well, out of 9 WD drives I've personally owned I've had 2 die and out of a total of 14 drives (including the WD's) ranging from 4.7 seagates to 40gig maxtors I'm not terribly impressed with the WD's as I've dealt with them.
  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    I love WD. Of course I am a convert from the deathstars (three failures).
    I still remember the old days when Seagate was so noisey you couldn't think and Maxtor made cheap crap.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    edcentric wrote:
    I love WD. Of course I am a convert from the deathstars (three failures).
    I still remember the old days when Seagate was so noisey you couldn't think and Maxtor made cheap crap.

    Remember when high end Seagates came with rubber sheets under controller card on Hd to absorb noise, rubber bushing\grommet like absorbers that kept the HD from vibrating case chassis, and the worst issue type they then had was HEAT being not dissipated, and device-embedded HD controller card ICs dying from overheating???

    John D.
  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    I use almost exclusively WD drives now. I've only ever had one crap out on me, and it was a 4.3GB WD Caviar that I got for free from an older friend. It was installed in an old Dell workstation and she had smoked like a chimney while using that computer for 6 years.

    The drive died while it was my Linux boot drive in my Pentium 1 machine and exposed to high temperatures and humidity (my tent at Boy Scout summer camp). I'm an instructor, so don't think the campers get electricity.

    -drasnor :fold:
  • GobblesGobbles Ventura California
    edited February 2004
    ok you can pfft at me... Ill claim responsiblity... While you were asleep I some how located where you lived and broke in an shook the livin crap outta the drive while it was writing large files to disk. I then ran it through the dishwasher to remove finger prints. After that I took it to DQ for icecream. The drive and I then went drinkin, It crawled back in just before you awoke and when you wanted it to work it said screw this and died..

    Sorry for the inconvienence.

    Warranty will cover its night out with me...

    Gobbles
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited February 2004
    Gobbles, I want to party with you sometime. That HD had more fun in one night than I've had in the last three years... :p
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