Seen it was still here to write a review about. This is still working 6 years later with no problems at all. Overall Review: I will always buy from WD. I highly recommend these to anyone looking for reliability, performance and decent prices.
It's an OEM drive, but not a problem, since I only needed the drive. The drive had been bouncing around the bottom of the shipping box. Still, I could have received a DOA, so minus one egg for poor quality shipping of fragile electronics. Overall Review: I wouldn't hesitate to purchase another Western Digital hard disk drive. Pros: Out of wrapper partitioned and formatted with no issues, good price. Super fast Newegg Service as always! Overall Review: I really would have liked bigger, but it is great for what it is.
Cons: Since I had an old computer that ran on Windows 98 SE, I hooked this up with the computer but the motherboard couldn't detect it, but fortunately I had a second jumper block so I had to do an alternative jumper setting and the first time didn't work, but the second time it worked fortunately.
Overall Review: I am not sure how long this product would last, but hopefully it will last more then a year :. Even though there are better hard drives out there, for old computers, I suggest this hard drive :. Pros: I've never in my life of building computers had a problem with a western digital drive. And this one is no exception, works as advertised, and quiet as a fart from a supermodel. Add to cart. Price Alert. Add To Wish List. Are you an E-Blast Insider? Get Educated. We see mostly failed drives in our lab and therefore we don't have complete statistics.
WD drives are very vulnerable to overheating, power surges and streaks. Quite often bad power supply unit combined with power streak is usually enough to fry spindle driver chip on the electronics and make the data inaccessible. Should this occur the computer would reboot or shut down completely, you would normally notice acrid smell of smoke coming from your PC and when powered on the drive would not spin up at all and appear to be completely dead.
If this is the case you can try to swap PCB from another WD drive of the same model but your chances of success are close to zero, especially on newer hard drives. The problem is that logic board on modern hard drive is adapted to the head disk assembly it was manufactured with. In our lab we use specialized software and hardware to rebuild these parameters or transfer them from fried board to make donor PCB fully compatible with damaged drive.
All Western Digital hard drives are also well-known for their firmware problems. Firmware of the drive is not located on the logic board as most people think.
Main part of firmware is stored on the platters in so-called Service Area. Service Area occupies the negative cylinders of the surface and contains a number of firmware modules.
If one of the modules gets corrupted the hard drive fails to initialize correctly and stops working making the data inaccessible. Capable But Command Failed" or "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter", "Hard drive not recognized", "Drive Mount Failure" or some other hard drive boot error. At the moment it is not possible to fix this kind of problem at home.
It is quite a complicated job and requires use of specialized expensive equipment and deep knowledge of hard drive design and data recovery technology to repair the firmware. The drive spins up, and and the heads start clicking with a constant or intermittent sound while unsuccessfully trying to locate firmware zone: , , ,. Usually this is a sign of damaged or crashed heads and it means the drive needs to be opened in a class clean room environment in order to replace head stack assembly.
Don't try to open the drive by yourself - you could damage the platters making your data unrecoverable. Western Digital drives also have common problem with spindle seizure. Usually this occurs after a fall and the drive either doesn't spin up at all with a siren sound: or starts up with loud noise unable to gain enough rotational speed:. Data recovery in such case involves removing platters from the hard drive in clean room environment and putting them into matching donor. This complex and precise procedure requires a lot of experience and use of specialized hardware to maintain platters in perfect alignment.
One of them is heads sticktion to the platter surface. Heads are normally parked on the parking ramp outside of the platters, but sometimes after a fall or abnormal termination they fail to return to their regular parking position and are left on the surface.
Immediately after the motor stops spinning they stick to the ideally smooth surface and it becomes impossible to free them without proper tools and experience. Don't attempt to open the drive by yourself - you will damage the platters and this will make your data unrecoverable. There is one more problem that is typical for all Western Digital drives: bad sectors.
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