never buy western digital external hard drives

well i am feed up with western digital my book external hard drives. they are cheap pieces of crap. i have had two.
the first one broke a month in when i knocked it over on my desk, thats right on not off. it fell on its side one day when i was working at my desk and it became unusable. i couldnt even get data recovery programs to pull off a shred of data(i tried three).
the second one just died i had it for 2 years. 350 gigs of data down the drain. i treated this one very delicately after the first one broke. it broke from normal use. i used it to play movies on my xbox. i am so pissed i looked it up they give you a 1year warranty on the my books! every other drive they list gets atleast a 3 year warranty the majority get 5.
so why did they only give you a 1 year warranty because they know its a piece of crap.

when i think back over the years i had 1 off there internal drives go bad too. im never by another drive from them.
im using my feeble power as a consumer to sway the hearts of my fellow 3reefers to stay away from western digital. i hope they go out of business selling a shotty product like that

 

that sucks . . .

some have horrible luck with WD drives, others have great. we put out well over 250 servers per year to various clients and every one has a western digital hdd. i've personally never had one go bad, and of all the machines that have passed through my shop i can remember 2 or 3 bad drives causing a system failure over the last 3 years or so.

when you knocked over the first one . . . was it spinning?

~Will.

 

yes thats why i was like ok that was just bad luck and got another one.
but while looking online for recovery solutions i did happen upon a plethora of people that had their my books go bad many from falls but some just regular usage.. the internals arent nearly as bad as the my books,

anyway you'd think they would have for seen the falling over problem and made the thing lie flat if not shock protected it more, or maybe put a lock mechanism like my thinkpad. i mean comon you shouldnt make a hard drive shaped like a stubby domino.

 

Weird, I have a WD passport 40gb that's literally been through hell and back, on countless flights, getting dropped on pavement, knocked out of rental cars, knocked around in my laptop bag, battered about getting plugged into different machines and has been dropped while spinning, and generally treated like crap and it's still going strong.

Sorry to hear about your bad luck

 

My WD has been through 3 motherboard and 1 power supply failures and never missed a beat--sorry about your bad luck!!!

 

I probably have the same one you have, It's taken a licken and keeps on ticken. Really, mine's been drop on concrete, in a mud puddle, on my slate floors and stepped on. Have had it for about 6 years now and never misses a beat. It does make some funny noises when I start it latley but hey if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Sorry bout your bad luck!!

 

the passports come with 3 and 5 year warranties, with the pocket passport one being the exception with a 1 year.
do yall have the pocket ones?

 

I've had trouble with WD historically, I've been in the IT field for around 10 years now and I have to say I've had the best luck with Seagate, and now maxtor drives are made in the same facilities so their quality has improved greatly also.