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Western Digital does not suck, as far as I know. I've never actually seen
a Western Digital drive die. I'm still using a 250megger from a while
back.
--Vincent Janelle "MCSE = Must Consult Someone Experienced"
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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Clemmitt Sigler wrote:
> 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?