I heard on our local (Albuquerque) Computer Talk show that Western Digital
hard drives were failing after only six months. Has anyone had any
experiences with failing WD drives?

Bearman

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bearman wrote:
| I heard on our local (Albuquerque) Computer Talk show that Western Digital
| hard drives were failing after only six months. Has anyone had any
| experiences with failing WD drives?
|
| Bearman
|
|
|

I had two SATA drives fail within 3 months of operation. That might be
chance tho...

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bearman wrote:
| I heard on our local (Albuquerque) Computer Talk show that Western Digital
| hard drives were failing after only six months. Has anyone had any
| experiences with failing WD drives?
|
| Bearman
|
|
|

I had two SATA drives fail within 3 months of operation. That might be
chance tho...

- --
Ben M.

- ----------------
What are Software Patents for?
To protect the small enterprise from bigger companies.

What do Software Patents do?
In its current form, they protect only companies with
big legal departments as they:
a.) Patent everything no matter how general
b.) Sue everybody. Even if the patent can be argued
invalid, small companies can ill-afford the
typical $500k cost of a law-suit (not to mention
years of harrasment).

Don't let them take away your right to program
whatever you like. Make a stand on Software Patents
before its too late.

Read about the ongoing battlUntitled 1e at http://swpat.ffii.org/
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I've been doing data recovery for 15 years.

Reminds me of the old WD31600. (BTW; If anyone has one of these still in
operation, this post will probably induce a head crash.)

There always seems to be plenty of WD drives to work on.




"Ben Measures" <saint_abroadremove@removehotmail.com> wrote in message
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> bearman wrote:
> | I heard on our local (Albuquerque) Computer Talk show that Western
Digital
> | hard drives were failing after only six months. Has anyone had any
> | experiences with failing WD drives?
> |
> | Bearman
> |
> |
> |
>
> I had two SATA drives fail within 3 months of operation. That might be
> chance tho...
>
> - --
> Ben M.
>
> - ----------------
> What are Software Patents for?
> To protect the small enterprise from bigger companies.
>
> What do Software Patents do?
> In its current form, they protect only companies with
> big legal departments as they:
> a.) Patent everything no matter how general
> b.) Sue everybody. Even if the patent can be argued
> invalid, small companies can ill-afford the
> typical $500k cost of a law-suit (not to mention
> years of harrasment).
>
> Don't let them take away your right to program
> whatever you like. Make a stand on Software Patents
> before its too late.
>
> Read about the ongoing battlUntitled 1e at http://swpat.ffii.org/
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I've been doing data recovery for 15 years.

Reminds me of the old WD31600. (BTW; If anyone has one of these still in
operation, this post will probably induce a head crash.)

There always seems to be plenty of WD drives to work on.




"Ben Measures" <saint_abroadremove@removehotmail.com> wrote in message
news:f9GOb.164$LU2.107@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk...
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> bearman wrote:
> | I heard on our local (Albuquerque) Computer Talk show that Western
Digital
> | hard drives were failing after only six months. Has anyone had any
> | experiences with failing WD drives?
> |
> | Bearman
> |
> |
> |
>
> I had two SATA drives fail within 3 months of operation. That might be
> chance tho...
>
> - --
> Ben M.
>
> - ----------------
> What are Software Patents for?
> To protect the small enterprise from bigger companies.
>
> What do Software Patents do?
> In its current form, they protect only companies with
> big legal departments as they:
> a.) Patent everything no matter how general
> b.) Sue everybody. Even if the patent can be argued
> invalid, small companies can ill-afford the
> typical $500k cost of a law-suit (not to mention
> years of harrasment).
>
> Don't let them take away your right to program
> whatever you like. Make a stand on Software Patents
> before its too late.
>
> Read about the ongoing battlUntitled 1e at http://swpat.ffii.org/
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I had a 120GB WD Drive that crashed on me after about a week. Returned to WD
and they sent me a new one. That one crashed in 2 weeks. I gave up on them.
I'll never buy a WD drive again.


"dbData" <rick @ spam.com> wrote in message
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> I've been doing data recovery for 15 years.
>
> Reminds me of the old WD31600. (BTW; If anyone has one of these still in
> operation, this post will probably induce a head crash.)
>
> There always seems to be plenty of WD drives to work on.
>
>
>
>
> "Ben Measures" <saint_abroadremove@removehotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:f9GOb.164$LU2.107@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk...
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> > bearman wrote:
> > | I heard on our local (Albuquerque) Computer Talk show that Western
> Digital
> > | hard drives were failing after only six months. Has anyone had any
> > | experiences with failing WD drives?
> > |
> > | Bearman
> > |
> > |
> > |
> >
> > I had two SATA drives fail within 3 months of operation. That might be
> > chance tho...
> >
> > - --
> > Ben M.
> >
> > - ----------------
> > What are Software Patents for?
> > To protect the small enterprise from bigger companies.
> >
> > What do Software Patents do?
> > In its current form, they protect only companies with
> > big legal departments as they:
> > a.) Patent everything no matter how general
> > b.) Sue everybody. Even if the patent can be argued
> > invalid, small companies can ill-afford the
> > typical $500k cost of a law-suit (not to mention
> > years of harrasment).
> >
> > Don't let them take away your right to program
> > whatever you like. Make a stand on Software Patents
> > before its too late.
> >
> > Read about the ongoing battlUntitled 1e at http://swpat.ffii.org/
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I had a 120GB WD Drive that crashed on me after about a week. Returned to WD
and they sent me a new one. That one crashed in 2 weeks. I gave up on them.
I'll never buy a WD drive again.


"dbData" <rick @ spam.com> wrote in message
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> I've been doing data recovery for 15 years.
>
> Reminds me of the old WD31600. (BTW; If anyone has one of these still in
> operation, this post will probably induce a head crash.)
>
> There always seems to be plenty of WD drives to work on.
>
>
>
>
> "Ben Measures" <saint_abroadremove@removehotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:f9GOb.164$LU2.107@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk...
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> > bearman wrote:
> > | I heard on our local (Albuquerque) Computer Talk show that Western
> Digital
> > | hard drives were failing after only six months. Has anyone had any
> > | experiences with failing WD drives?
> > |
> > | Bearman
> > |
> > |
> > |
> >
> > I had two SATA drives fail within 3 months of operation. That might be
> > chance tho...
> >
> > - --
> > Ben M.
> >
> > - ----------------
> > What are Software Patents for?
> > To protect the small enterprise from bigger companies.
> >
> > What do Software Patents do?
> > In its current form, they protect only companies with
> > big legal departments as they:
> > a.) Patent everything no matter how general
> > b.) Sue everybody. Even if the patent can be argued
> > invalid, small companies can ill-afford the
> > typical $500k cost of a law-suit (not to mention
> > years of harrasment).
> >
> > Don't let them take away your right to program
> > whatever you like. Make a stand on Software Patents
> > before its too late.
> >
> > Read about the ongoing battlUntitled 1e at http://swpat.ffii.org/
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