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FreakyFerret wrote:
"I used to work retail repair and we sold drive by all manufacturers: Western Digital, Seagate, Hitatchi, Maxtor, Toshiba branded, and several off-name brands. We almost never saw a broken WD. I think twice in the years I worked there. Don't recall ever seeing a Hitatchi one. Not one. We'd see a broken Seagate about once a week though. Maxtor about once a month. I'd never buy one of those personally. But, I've heard from other people they have nothing but good experiences with them. I can only go on the thousands of systems I've repaired. "
Well, that's pretty impressive. I have been pretty p.o.'d since my 9 month old W.D. Passport died the other day with no warning and no reason. And I found their tech support awful.
But your testimonial above makes me willing to give W.D. ONE more chance. I'll buy one more W.D. and if it also suffers an early death, that will be it, absolutely forever, for W.D.. If, on the other hand, it lasts a couple years, then I'll buy another one.
However, based on the above, also, and based on how my Hitachi that I just bought holds up, I may try to buy Hitachi whenever possible, instead. But I know that right now W.D. has a lot of stuff on sale.
Maybe you can tell me what the main differences are between the various W.D. drives available? Is one model more reliable than another or does it matter? I think they have one called Elite, one called Essential, etc...