Premature external hard disks failure - WD My Book Studio

[shiunn]

I'm looking to buy the Western Digital Studio Edition 500gb from amazon. From the 20 reviews that I've read from both the UK and the US sites, a disturbing number of people have bad experience with this drive eg drive not starting up, dead and unreadable, etc.

Any chance this improportional number of defects could just be one side of the story, ie there are a lot of other happy customers out there who just didn't post the reviews?

 

[errol]

I'm looking to buy the Western Digital Studio Edition 500gb from amazon. From the 20 reviews that I've read from both the UK and the US sites, a disturbing number of people have bad experience with this drive eg drive not starting up, dead and unreadable, etc.

Any chance this improportional number of defects could just be one side of the story, ie there are a lot of other happy customers out there who just didn't post the reviews?

I just read the same thing. But I just ordered one from a user here and I hope it works well! WD has a good warranty though.

 

[Mac In School]

WD has a good warranty though.

One year, or have they changed it?

Seagate has 5.

 

[shiunn]

One shouldn't get too comfortable with the word warranty, because WD doesn't cover data recovery, which is, IMHO far more valuable than an external HDD replacement.

Glad you mentioned Seagate. I've also had a look ad Lacie and lacie porsche. It seems that the magic number is 25% - 25% of bad reviews respectively.

Is there no ideal external HDD which does not have failures?

 

[itickings]

Any chance this improportional number of defects could just be one side of the story, ie there are a lot of other happy customers out there who just didn't post the reviews?

Well, at least I'm happy with my drives, and I haven't posted any reviews there. People tend to scream loud when things fail, and stay quiet when everything's fine.

Is there no ideal external HDD which does not have failures?

Nope.

Simply put - All drives will fail, internal as well as external drives. It is only a matter of time.

 

[Mac In School]

LaCie is one of the brands I avoid. They have great enclosures, but that's all they make... The enclosures. They buy their drives from other makers, and you're never sure what you're going to get. Could be any brand inside.