2008/10/27 j debert <jdebert@garlic.com>:
Every single WD drive of 10Gb or greater capacity I have had has failed. Most just outright fried. The rest fail when "warm". The hottest one, a 60Gb, consistently fails when warm--not hot, despite being sinked and blown better than any CPU. Max temp ever was 45C sinked. New, just out of the bag, it was 76C unsinked and the controller exceeded 100C. It failed after 3 months.
I have never had such problems with Maxtor, Seagate, Fujitsu.
I think that it is worth mentioning that I have had every brand of harddrive fail on me. Wester Digitals have remained my favorite drives, though, and I have a 20 GB WD drive that's been in almost daily use for around eight years. Only in the past few weeks have I seriously considered switching drive manufacturers, though, after an email exchange with WD in which they say that their product is unsupported under Linux. The rep went on to clarify that warranty failures would still be replaced, however, things like firmware updates (this is an issue on some WD 2.5" models) and some other tools would only be handled via Windows. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü