Hard drive replacement advice needed

isofa

For everyone you'll find recommending an HD brand, you'll find another saying they've had a failure, all HDs fail from time to time, from all manufacturers.

I've Seagate, Maxtor and Samsung's in Systems over 10 years old running fine (used everyday), a WD 500GB External drive at least 5 years old, working perfectly...

The only ever failure I've had so far was an IBM TravelStar in a Dell laptop...

[Deleted User]

My preference is always Western Digital for the Advanced-RMA service that they offer, which is more convenient than being without a drive for a period of time. If only the manufacturer of my PSU did the same

whybelieve

gaming_guy wrote: »

in event viewer (start > run > type eventvwr, press ok and look in the system logs) are there any errors (marked by a red/white cross) saying disk?.

There are lots of yellow "!" - is that the same?

gaming_guy

whybelieve wrote: »

There are lots of yellow "!" - is that the same?

i wouldn't worry too much about them, its just when you get stuff like this that you need to worry.

AJ84

Gaming_Guy I think you have issues : - )

My preference has always been WD - mainly as someone already mentioned - it's no quibble warranty methods

gaming_guy

AJ84 wrote: »

Gaming_Guy I think you have issues : - )

that's not all of them. i think there are nearly 200 in the log.

however, i ran the WD data lifeguard tool and it offered to fix the bad blocks at the end of the extended test and i clicked yes. it managed to fix it, but i backed the hdd up pretty sharpish just in case anything happened. i certainly won't be putting anything important on it now!