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I decided to try WD because of the price and recommendations. I tried everything but could no longer access the drive. I built my 'super computer' a year ago with two of these drives. my main drive began clicking. They said I could get my money back. Built my desktop beast with screaming Intel Dual Core plus 4GB ram (a lot at the time), 500 Meg Video, two 500gb WD drives. I was mortified.
My success rate with Maxtor drives (I have owned over ten) is 100%. I have used Maxtor drives for the past 20 years with NO problems. So my success rate with Western Drives is 50% which is horrible. Everything was fine until only 4 months. Boot would see the drive but windows XP did not. This does not speak well for WD.I tried to get support for this drive and couldn't get any. I WANTED MY DATA BACK.Western Digital - Never again.
It seems like after a couple of years no matter what you had before you always outgrow your hard drive. The copy protect makes office not work quite right and I could not uninstall it and reinstall it after it was copied onto the new drive. And my Office 2007 boots up at least 2x faster. I was too cheap at the time to do Sata and did a 120gb eied drive instead. They tell you what you need to do and then tell you wont have to because it is automatic (not). It worked OK but was getting full of pictures and I was experimenting with video, and my son started putting on 5 and 10 gb games. I had put together a computer for home use a few years ago (P4) with a sata 1 motherboard. Fortunately all the files for outlook worked once I reinstall Office.
I replaced the drive with this new Sata2 drive with only a couple of glitches. It turns out you need to uninstall office 2007, use the included copy software to coppy the drive, and then reinstall office 2007. The other glitch was I needed to use the jumper they supplied to make it SATA1 for my motherboard. All in all it gives me pleanty of space and my system boots and runs a lot faster.
Got this very fastThese caviar hard drives seem to be reliable. I have a 350 and two 250mb that are almost 2 years old and two 250mb that are almost a year old and two 500mb that are over a month old. So far so good
A very quiet hard disk, with a lot of space, and its really fast, it offers fast access to files.expectacular. buy it__________________________muy buen disco duro, rapidisimo, con mucho espacio, y no hace nada de ruido.
Horrible drive. I wish I could sue these junk manufacturers for all the time they caused me to flush down the toilet. Steer clear, of this product.it is unreliable. The drive is unreadable and all my pictures and video are now lost. All the hours would come out to thousands of dollars. Rediculous and very disappointing.
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