Hi! Am Freitag 10 Juli 2009 16:56:35 schrieb James George:
Not even two weeks later, the new drive started clicking every couple seconds...so I frantically rushed to finish the backup server... Needless to say, I was too late - I started receiving S.M.A.R.T. errors on the drive, and when I attempted to copy files off of it, it would just hang the system. [...] The moral of the story is three-fold - 1) be patient and be rewarded; 2) BACK UP YOUR JUNK! and 3) NEVER BUY SEAGATE - buy Western Digital!
I had a WD drive die out on me after only a few (<4) months. Luckily I was able to move my files to another drive (by keeping the drive off for one week until the new drive arived). However this experience would prevent me from recommending WD over Seagate with that specific reason. Seems like sometimes its just bad luck. Regards, Matthias