On July 21, 2002 06:36 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: > Hello. > > I'm thinking about buying a Western Digital WD1200AB harddisk. I > remember that there were some problems "back in the days" with WD hard > disks. Do these problems still exist? > > Thanks, > > Alexander Skwar
WD's are awful, awful drives. They aren't built right. We found one in our old production systems at work that got stuck trying to read something and was clicking like a broken record. Naturally the constant attempts and failures to read from the drive caused it to overheat. We had to unplug it, let it sit for ten minutes, wrap it in plastic and put it in the freezer for an hour to get it in shape to run long enough to back it up to tape. There are alot of better choices out there, don't cheap out on the harddrive. Maxtor and Fujitsu are my favourites. I'm using one 40Gb Fujitsu (MPG3409AT) and one 40Gb Maxtor (6L040J2) at the moment without any grief. Both are running quite happily at UDMA5 speeds. Richie
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