Re: DO NOT BUY Western Digital "Green" Drives (also present in WD "Elements" external USB cases)

On Sep 4, 2011 1:28 PM, "Doug" <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 09/04/2011 03:41 AM, shawn wilson wrote:


On Sep 4, 2011 3:23 AM, "Miles Bader" <miles@xxxxxxx> wrote:

lina <lina.lastname@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
just guess ... might be wrong, might lots of people coming for WD,
so the stores only sold WD.

Dunno, but I've had extremely good experiences with WD drives in the
past, so I'd definitely favor them when I buy a new one...

I have absolutely no oppinion. I was merely pointing out that the OP was
presenting his oppinion as fact and I thought that pretty messed up.

Grented, due to the inciteful the subject was, I'm sure this thread will
keep going for at least a week and most of us will remember something bad
about WD the next time we go buy a disc. Oh well. The OP probably got his
wish :)


It's been a few years since I retired, but I remember the IT guys
replacing a _lot_ of Western Digital drives. I guess the
company bought them because they were cheaper, but I don't think they
saved any money. For my own use, I have been using Seagate and
Hitachi, and have had no trouble in quite some time. Obviously, YMMV, but
what I saw sould not encourage me to buy WD.

So, if I have 1000 computers with 1000 WD discs and nothing else in them,
how many Seagate discs will fail?

Discs do fail and I look forward to someone posting the fail rate of
different manufacturer discs. However the above statement doesn't seem to be
based on logic.

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