VanLUG Email Archive
> Hi everybody,
>
> I had a WD AC23200L hard drive go bad on me yesterday. About the middle
> 50% of the drive appears to be trashed now, which is sadly where my Linux
> lives :^( But I'm running Debian, so I just have to reinstall the backed
> up list of packages and the /etc directory for config files, and so on.
> When I turned on the power yesterday I heard some horrible clicking and
> clunking noises coming from the drive, then the PC couldn't find it. I
> turned it off and checked the cable and power connectors (they were
> OK), then turned it on again. The symptom was that Linux booted
> v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y.
>
> The drive was only 8 months old, and the WDDIAG program found 10 bad
> tracks, none of which could be repaired. I'm calling Tech Support today
> to get a replacement cross-shipped.
>
> The reason I'm posting is to find out if my experiences are typical.
> I have 3 WD hard drives and now two of them have had to be replaced
> over the last two years. Does Western Digital really suck? Or is
> it all IDE hard drives?
Unfortunately this seems to be the case. Over two years ans some
10 WD drives about 2/3 had to go back. I have a WD caviar and
it hasn't given me any problems at all, go figure. On the blight side
WD does seem to have good support. Every one of those bad drives where
replaced.
> *Please* don't flame me over the IDE/SCSI issue ;^) My *next* PC *will*
> be all SCSI, don't worry. I've had enough of this drive dying crap!
That'll happen. I'll always have al least two drives in my computer
from now on. Backups are good.
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