Hard drive gone bad

[flavius]

Fortunately, I managed to get all the recordings off. And I'm going to rma it, since it's not even two years old.

It's the WD5000KS from Western Digital. Not so sure their tools are any good. Is there anything else I could use to analyze or maybe even fix that bastard? What are you guys using these days?

[sainswor99]

I'm avoiding western digital like the plague these days. I had two of them go bad in a period of 6months (both of them less than 2 years old). I'm running Maxtor & Seagate, and don't really notice an issue with either one.

Shame about WD; they used to be very reliable.

[GTwannabe]

I've been seeing a lot of bad hard drives lately. Reliability took a dive when the big name makers started producing drives in China.

[hemicuda]

I lost a 120gb WD (OS drive) last month. It wouldn't boot XP under normal mode, but it's serving up stored videos just fine now. Guess it couldn't handle the load of the OS. The stuff I have on it now is easily replaceable so I'm not too worried about leaving it in. I agree that WD quality hit the gutter a few yrs back. darn shame as I used to use them exclusively. Made the switch to seagate and so far I'm happy; knock-on-wood.