are western digital harddrives any good?
 

Western Digital 200 GB harddrive, i can buy it for £75.00 second hand...is it worth it, apparantely there are no bad sectors.


thanks

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They aint bad I certainly aint known of one failing, however I do believe sata/raid is way to go, but certainly for that price from a good reseller not bad at all for 200gb, is it 5400rpm or 7200/7500rpm?

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Here is a price for a new one from aria

Western Digital 200GB 100/7200 8MB Retail

£68.5 exc, £80.49 inc.

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i think the new one might be a better option :disturbd: :D :D :D :D

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:dunce: didnt read that it was 2nd hand, I would avoid it, get new its about same price.

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I wouldn't touch Western Digital even if the drive was brand new.

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oh and whys that ????????????? :erm:

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Because all 3 of the hard drives I have bought from them all failed within 1-3 months.

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Ditto :tu:

I have seen to many of them failing.... would not touch then with a barge poll !

Re: are western digital harddrives any good?
 

Have two of them, work fine and...silent ;) The one downstairs has been going for an age so no quarms about reliability there, as with all things, some work fine, some fail.

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What reseller did you both use for them to fail, never ever heard of a Western Digital failing, heard of Samsung ones blowing, and Maxtor ( speak from experience in that one )

Western I always though to be the best really, and super good value also.

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I can't remember where I got them from, was about 2 years ago. Ever since I've been using Seagate, which my Seagate Medalist is 4 years old and still running strong.

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Hmm I always bought mine from www.overclockers.co.uk everything pc I buy from there now....they outta give me my personal truck for deliverys with amount of parts and toys I buy from there.

Speaking of which I am after new hd as the Maxtor one in this old pc, is a little errm....... noisy.

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Remember, just because you've had bad experiences with a make of HD, doesn't mean it's a bad make.

I currently use a Western Digital 120GB and it's worked perfectly ever since I got it (1 year and a bit).

I could say Maxtor was a crap make, since I had a Maxtor HD and it failed within the first few months, but I know others with the same brand and they've never had any problems with theirs.

Hard drives are pretty unpredictable unfortunately.

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I have 4 WD 250Gb in my machine and theyre going perfectly!!! For business i tend to use seagates, only because they have better support should they go wrong, otherwise i would probably stick WD's in the units at work too....

Dont go with a maxtor though...... pain in the backside........

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Certainly, imo you really can't go wrong with either WD or Maxtor :tu:

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I'm currently running to samsungs, no prob... my old western digital did fail tho...

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mine took a few weeks to fail after a previous (fault free one) was replaced, long story has numerous problems with the PC.

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IBM Deathstars are the real ones to avoid ;)

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hehe, i got an old 500mb of them somewhere.. still working fine... just a bit slow and lacking space...

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Yes, I will second that. No warning, nothing, dead as a dodo from one day to the next :(