should I trust this drive?

Discussion in 'SSD and HDD storage' started by dsbig, Jul 23, 2014.

  1. dsbig

    dsbig Ancient Guru

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  2. mmicrosysm

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    Looks like Refurbished WD drive. I would avoid it like the plague and buy a name brand new drive.
     
  3. Labyrinth

    Labyrinth Ancient Guru

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    I would avoid
     
  4. CrazY_Milojko

    CrazY_Milojko Ancient Guru

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    ^^^^ This
     

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    Hi dsbig, sorry to hear about your WD hard drive problem. Thus, have you done the Data Lifeguard Diagnostics test on the drive? If you are yet to perform the test, I strongly recommend you to do so as it might help to detect any errors on the drive itself. To find out more on the causes of the hard drive noise possibility, you may visit Western Digital knowledge base under Answer ID: 568

    Hope it helps mate.

    Cheers.
     
  6. thatguy91

    thatguy91 Guest

    Let's put it a simpler way... It would be like you, who is saying your drive is knackered, sending it somewhere, whereby it is 'refurbished' and then sold back to you. The warranty would be even harder to get back no doubt than a brand new drive.

    You also have no idea how old the drive actually is, although hard drives these days typically aren't SATA 2.

    I like the title, it seems apt:
    (the -1 part)
     
  7. ElementalDragon

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    Why buy a random refurbished hard drive for $55 when you could buy a 1TB Western Digital or Seagate or something for roughly the same price, if not a couple bucks more?
     
  8. Pill Monster

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    In one word: NO.
     
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    Why bother anyway, you could get a 2TB Seagate or WD for $40 more.
     
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  11. ElementalDragon

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    Also have to wonder if you're using it as your main hard drive, or just for data storage. Even the WD Green's/Blue's aren't too bad.
     
  12. BarryB

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    Failed drives that have been repaired and re-sold? Christ, what did they do, run chkdsk /r and bung a new label on them FFS!!
     
  13. sykozis

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    My Seagate 1TB is only $2 more....

    Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB $54.99 vs $52.99 for that "refurb" drive....
     
  14. IcE

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    They're fast too, mine does 190mb/sec average read with a low of 100 and a max of 230. My WD black is only half as fast.
     
  15. sykozis

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    I've be happy if my WD Black was half as fast as my Seagate....
     

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