At one time, around a third of all failed hard disks I had in for repair were Western Digital Caviar drives, most of them had the same failure mode too which involved the drive repeatedly smashing its heads off the stops at irregular intervals, fun -.o
I think you should investigate your supplier and shipping and their/your staff because that's not what the rest of the world has as experience with WD and I think there was something peculiar going on along your supply chain.
Wwhat is correct. I have bought from a few online retailers and the problem with these defective hard drives is cheap wrapping and the courier banged up the package during shipping. I know from experience.
I've had 10+ HDD's from WD over the years, and I've yet to have a problem. When you take poor shipping into account, things get pretty dicey. The head on an HDD is a hairs width from the platter, and one sharp jolt (say, as the UPS guy is throwing it into his truck) is all it takes to ruin your drive. It's a shame that brick and mortar retailers (now that CompUSA is gone) can't hope to carry nearly as much stock, or as varied a stock, as online retailers. Couple that with there being zero tax at places like Amazon and Newegg, and the often free shipping, and you have a perfect storm, where buying from a brick and mortar would almost be stupid.
To say nothing of Hideki's problem (that line may have been defective, it happens) it's about time that online retailers of computer parts started marking their boxes as fragile. When the box containing my ram, HDD, motherboard, etc came from UPS, the driver basically dropped it from how high it was when he was carrying, down to the hard concrete ground. Unfortunately, my 40 pound steel Antec 1200 was also in the box with those light components. Luckily nothing was damaged, but I could have cried when he did it. Had it said Fragile, I doubt he would have been so negligent (or if hadn't weighed 40 pounds, and he hadn't been out of shape and over encumbered by a mere 40 pounds).
don't low rank him because the wd drives he has used have crapped out on him. I have had tons of problems with wd as well. i have had four hard drive failures with that horrible brand. never had a problem in any of me seagate hard drives. they were all purchased on newegg and were all shipped the same way!
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At one time, around a third of all failed hard disks I had in for repair were Western Digital Caviar drives, most of them had the same failure mode too which involved the drive repeatedly smashing its heads off the stops at irregular intervals, fun -.o
I think you should investigate your supplier and shipping and their/your staff because that's not what the rest of the world has as experience with WD and I think there was something peculiar going on along your supply chain.
Wwhat is correct. I have bought from a few online retailers and the problem with these defective hard drives is cheap wrapping and the courier banged up the package during shipping. I know from experience.
I've had 10+ HDD's from WD over the years, and I've yet to have a problem. When you take poor shipping into account, things get pretty dicey. The head on an HDD is a hairs width from the platter, and one sharp jolt (say, as the UPS guy is throwing it into his truck) is all it takes to ruin your drive. It's a shame that brick and mortar retailers (now that CompUSA is gone) can't hope to carry nearly as much stock, or as varied a stock, as online retailers. Couple that with there being zero tax at places like Amazon and Newegg, and the often free shipping, and you have a perfect storm, where buying from a brick and mortar would almost be stupid.
To say nothing of Hideki's problem (that line may have been defective, it happens) it's about time that online retailers of computer parts started marking their boxes as fragile. When the box containing my ram, HDD, motherboard, etc came from UPS, the driver basically dropped it from how high it was when he was carrying, down to the hard concrete ground. Unfortunately, my 40 pound steel Antec 1200 was also in the box with those light components. Luckily nothing was damaged, but I could have cried when he did it. Had it said Fragile, I doubt he would have been so negligent (or if hadn't weighed 40 pounds, and he hadn't been out of shape and over encumbered by a mere 40 pounds).
don't low rank him because the wd drives he has used have crapped out on him. I have had tons of problems with wd as well. i have had four hard drive failures with that horrible brand. never had a problem in any of me seagate hard drives. they were all purchased on newegg and were all shipped the same way!