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Devices => PC's and Other Hardware => Topic started by: newsposter on December 07, 2007, 10:36:07 am

Title: Stay away from those Western DIgital external drives....
Post by: newsposter on December 07, 2007, 10:36:07 am

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/06/western-digital-netw.html

Title: Re: Stay away from those Western DIgital external drives....
Post by: jgreen on December 07, 2007, 04:30:59 pm

news, are you sure this isn't just an urban legend?  it kind of sounds "pythons-in-the-sewers".

Title: Re: Stay away from those Western DIgital external drives....
Post by: Alex B on December 07, 2007, 04:43:24 pm

That page has a link to this (http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1495&p_created=1168641440&p_sid=bLTfVJLi&p_accessibility=0&p_redirect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPTEmcF9zb3J0X2J5PSZwX2dyaWRzb3J0PSZwX3Jvd19jbnQ9NSw1JnBfcHJvZHM9MCZwX2NhdHM9MCZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3NlYXJjaF90eXBlPWFuc3dlcnMuc2VhcmNoX2ZubCZwX3BhZ2U9MSZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PS5hdmk*&p_li=&p_topview=1) page.

Title: Re: Stay away from those Western DIgital external drives....
Post by: jgreen on December 07, 2007, 05:03:30 pm

This just seems too silly to be true.  How many hard drives does the RIAA purchase, out of WD's entire customer base?  Dozens?  And they're going to cripple that whole product line in order to please one customer?

And I was just about to buy one of the 320 GB notebook USB drives--are those affected? 

Title: Re: Stay away from those Western DIgital external drives....
Post by: benn600 on December 07, 2007, 09:29:10 pm

I'm betting that the drive has not a clue of its data when it's in a RAID set.  At first I thought the article was about high failure rate.  I have/know of 19 500GB drives that have been running for a year or more without a single failure.

Yea, they're network drives so they can examine the data.  Media is what drives hard drive purchases--DUH.

Title: Re: Stay away from those Western DIgital external drives....
Post by: johnnyboy on December 16, 2007, 04:49:39 pm

This is actually not quite the case
Their sharing software when used blocks these file types - the drives themselves are fine.

Just get the drive and use other, better software.

Problem solved

Title: Re: Stay away from those Western DIgital external drives....
Post by: benn600 on December 16, 2007, 04:58:39 pm

I'm not a big fan of standalone NAS devices, either, because it seems like you could be screwed in so many different ways.  With a desktop, you have standard drives and a standard PC with the potential for tons of 3rd party recovery tools.