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From: Metspitzer on 21 Mar 2010 19:33
On Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:27:39 -0400, Metspitzer <kilowatt(a)charter.net>
wrote:

>I seem to be having a large amount of WD drives failing.
>
>What is your drive brand name of choice?


I was checking the serial number at WD to see if it was still under
warrante. It was not, but WD shows a discount for an upgraded drive.

My old drive is a WD1600. WD offers an upgrade discount. I am
thinking of getting this one.

http://support.wdc.com/product/kb.asp?modelno=WD7500AYPS&amp;lang=en

750 GB WD Caviar RE2-GP SATA Hard Drive

Price: $76.00� + 7.00 Shipping

From: geoff on 22 Mar 2010 02:10
I've used seagate and WD with no issues except for one wd that reported
write problems.

The wd tools were of no help, so, I tried the seagate tools. They did not
help either.

I finally tried spinrite, and it found a bad sector, marked it bad, moved my
data to another sector, and all was good.

Other tools do this and many here dislike spinrite but the main point is the
HD manufacturer's tools were pretty worthless.

--g


From: larry moe 'n curly on 22 Mar 2010 05:56


Ken Tukyfriedturkey wrote:
>
> Had a Fuji fail in my laptop at 2 1/2 years.

How big was it? I wasn't able to find anything about Fuji drives
bigger than about 6GB, and it was < 1" diameter.
From: larry moe 'n curly on 22 Mar 2010 06:33


Metspitzer wrote:
>
> My old drive is a WD1600. WD offers an upgrade discount. I am
> thinking of getting this one.
>
> http://support.wdc.com/product/kb.asp?modelno=WD7500AYPS&amp;lang=en
>
> 750 GB WD Caviar RE2-GP SATA Hard Drive
>
> Price: $76.00� + 7.00 Shipping

NewEgg currently has the 1TB version for $79.99, delivered, as well as
a 7200 RPM Hitachi 7K1000.C 1TB for that price (these usually run
cooler than other 7200 RPM HDs; was $67 last Monday, while ZipZoomFly
had it for $5 less with a $10-15 rebate).

You may want to check Fry's, NewEgg, ZipZoomFly, or even OfficeMax,
Staples, or Office Depot because they often have drives for less than
that. It's common for Fry's to sell 1TB drives for $80 or less
(currently $77 for a 1TB Seagate, $80 for a USB 1TB Hitachi), and last
week NE had a Hitachi 1TB for $67, delivered (currently $80,
delivered, as is a 1), while ZZF's price was $5 less but required
applying for a $15 rebate.
From: Ken Tukyfriedturkey on 22 Mar 2010 13:56

"larry moe 'n curly" <larrymoencurly(a)my-deja.com> wrote in message
news:2e1f3d2e-df43-4d4e-851b-d05a41a87b4a(a)c34g2000pri.googlegroups.com...
>
>
> Ken Tukyfriedturkey wrote:
>>
>> Had a Fuji fail in my laptop at 2 1/2 years.
>
> How big was it? I wasn't able to find anything about Fuji drives
> bigger than about 6GB, and it was < 1" diameter.

sorry Fujitsu 2 1/2" 60GB


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