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311978 2005-01-08 07:36:00 Has anyone else had any problems with WD hard drives? I have had 2 (the second just now) crap out.
WD160

About to give up and go back to punch cards...
Blade2 (6577)
311979 2005-01-08 07:46:00 At what age did they die? You don't have two hard drives installed and have them sitting right on top of each other do you? Jen (38)
311980 2005-01-08 08:30:00 if your chewing through drives check the drives temps and your case temps. tweak'e (69)
311981 2005-01-08 08:55:00 I've got a WD drive and have had no problems with it... can't say the same for my Seagate however :(

Mike.
Mike (15)
311982 2005-01-08 09:10:00 Maybe his PCI bus is running at 40Mhz with the drive at 50°C+ ?

Welcome to the harsh reality of needing regular backups. ;)
E|im (87)
311983 2005-01-08 09:33:00 Have had new hardrives of every brand bite the dust. Some times a bad batch comes out with immediate failures, some a little longer down the track. WD are no worse or better than any medium priced brand.
Backup regularly and its simply a hassle not a major problem. :nerd:
the highlander (245)
311984 2005-01-08 14:39:00 Has anyone else had any problems with WD hard drives? I have had 2 (the second just now) crap out.
WD160

About to give up and go back to punch cards...

Raid 1
bsssst (1725)
311985 2005-01-09 01:04:00 Maybe just a bad batch, it can be hard to back up the drive when you are dealing in raw video with files up to and exceeding 10GB, bring on blu ray.

thanks for all your thoughts.

Luke
Blade2 (6577)
311986 2005-01-09 01:27:00 EBCDIC (029) or BCD (024)? Graham L (2)
311987 2005-01-10 04:18:00 eh? Blade2 (6577)
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