Have the drive failures/product flaws of the previous generation been fixed?
510868
It was those failures that detoured me from the last generation, but so far I haven't encountered any of those issues with this.
510869
I was excited to have bought a 3TB Airport Time Capsule. Incredibly easy to set up. A week later the Time Capsule part failed. Then after a few more days even the Airport failed. I have a 2007 white macbook, a 2012 Haswell Macbook Air, Apple TV and two ipad 2 tablets. It was shocking that such a failure occurred and so quickly. Unfortunately it seems problems are still ongoing with the Airport Time Capsule. I may just use an online cloud solution.
588802
Sorry I did not notice. I immediately replace the drive with a solid state drive and new OS 10.4 which makes these a really nice fast machine.
27160
OMG, NO! We had one fail without notice and it was a major problem. We thought the dual drive on ours would be a safe backup system, but the entire drive failed. A service company worked on it and we were fortunate to retrieve most of the data, but it was a very close call and expensive. Now we have TWO separate backup drives on all systems.
2093694
3 yr Limited, but I've received an RMA on WD drives before that fell outside the "Limited" restrictions.Hope this helps.
1230016
I'm pretty excited about this laptop! I just hope I don't have the same HDD issues as I'm having with the UL30Vt-X1, which I'm returning since it's defective. I've had my computer either stall or force a restart due to the HDD clicking repeatedly. This would happen on it's own, or due to a small jostle. It's very very annoying!
1483980
That's a good question . . . . In my experience, the Segate drives are built a bit more durable than WD. I've had numerous issues them over the years. Not to say Seagate drives are bulletproof, but I prefer them.
1893691
goto western digitals website and you can check the warranty status with the serial number that is on the drive. Most drives I have bought usually have 1 1/2 to 2 year warranties
502533
I have long been a Seagate user, in part because I live in Brazil and both their distribution and support here are excellent, reputable and well-established for many years. My home desktop PC has two Seagate HDDs and I never had any problems with them or their other Seagate predecessors. However, Seagate has been having one serious problem after another in the last couple of years, with many "bricked" HDDs due to serious firmware flaws and other issues. Not only that, it has denied the existence of such problems until the amount of complaints and outcry was too staggering for it to ignore. While those problems happened mostly with their internal HDD models and I have never had any direct experience with their *external* HDDs, I read the user reviews before buying a new external drive, and the FreeAgent Go is having lots of problems, especially messing up Windows' handling of USB ports (or the chipset's, it's not clear) and having unrecoverable write errors in Windows, for which Seagate had not yet offered a solution when I last looked. No wonder that Seagate has had billions in losses in the last quarters, even taking into account the recession, and its stock has plummeted. It has lost a lot of credibility - and sales. Since Toshiba and Samsung external HDDs had even worse complaints (many angry users with "dead" HDDs just after a few months' use), and Iomega drives seemed to be good but were way too expensive and had no service or warranty in Brazil, I went for a WD My Passport Elite (and have just bought an Essential as well). At least so far, working great with no problems at all.
1511970
The warranty on these drives is not through HGST. When I purchased 4 drives from Oceanside about 6 months ago, the drives were listed as OEM. At time, the price was very cheap ($100 less than any other vendor) that I did not worry to much about the warranty. If Newegg offers the same model with a 3 year, it should be a no brainer where to buy the drive.
1392535
I just got the drive. It is the same model as before. But simply replacing the pcb board does not work. The original pcb board is working fine as tested by mounting it to the new drive. There is some serious problem inside the sealed chamber like reading arms or some mechanical failure. I don't want to mess it up now. I have to eat the pain of losing my data. I used to always trust WD but now I changed my mind. Maybe looking for a seagate one for replacement. Next time I will build a Raid.
1200825
I've been using this drive for months and have had no issues with corrupt data. How can you know the data is corrupt?
1464531
Send it back, it's defective. They shipped out a lot of defective ones... esp. around December for the holidays when they were on sale. I suspect while they were on sale & they were selling lots of them, they put inferior drives in them to increase their profit margin.
1308220
So far I have not had any problems. Also, I haven't noticed any slowness among the drives,
2231459
Bought mine in Aug 2014, loaded 8 WD Red 4TB drives into without issue, I can't image there being a problem with the 6 TB drives.
563274
I don't know why someone would say that. I have found them to be the most reliable drives I have ever owned. In fact, I can honestly say that I have never had to replace a Western Digital RE drive because of a failure. We have replaced some that were small enough to be obsolete, but in my recollection have never replaced one for any other reason in 9 years of business. Of course, your mileage may vary. We do make sure to keep them cool.
629561
I've just had my 4th large (>1TB) WD drive failure in less than 2 years. I've had more drives fail in the last 2 years than in the last 20. All of them large WD drives. I'm done with WD. All these failures were with drives less than 3 years old. Just absolutely unacceptable.
1210305
I have not had any trouble at all with mine. However, I will admit that I only use it as a backup drive and it is only on about once a month for the length of time it takes to back up the drive it is linked to.