So yeah

[Avast]

I have a hard drive, it keeps reverting to RAW from NTFS.

 

1 terabyte My Book 1130 Western Digital USB 3.0

 

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So any ideas on why a brand new hard drive is so screwed up? Do they just crap them out of the factory now? I definitely had nothing to do with it's huge fail.

Edited September 5, 2011 by Avast

[dezmond]

Recently my external hard-drive crashed, It used the Western Digital hard-drive 320gb and this worked fine for years until the warranty ran out and then the thing died on me. Won't even power up...I've been advised to keep away from Western Digital now Edited September 5, 2011 by dezmond

[PoLiX]

WD had a few years where they put out some really shitty products. Sadly they've had this happen twice now. I dunno if it is when they feel their profit margin is sinking, they try to make it back up with cheaper parts, or what.

 

But the past year or so I have read less complaints about some of their new USB 3.0 externals.

[Avast]

I don't know if I should still use this.

 

I am sure the hard drive itself is good quality..

 

I think the problem exists because it's using USB 3.0 and because it has to deal with Windows 7. But they explained either power surges or shutting off the drive without ejecting it, can cause the partition table to crash. And me I am thinking.. I have another hard drive, not USB 3.0 but SATA.. connected with a sata cable.. All I do with that is flick the switch and shut it off. AND NOTHING CRASHES. So why do these new craps they make need special shut down procedures? Obviously this technology is too new for them to perfect it yet. OR they design it like crap on purpose so they can make more money. Example when I said I need to recover my data before formatting they started referring me to their data recovery partners, who obviously charge you an arm and a leg. Losers. So now I am on their website, downloading updated firmware for this Hard drive, and installing some smartbackup program they have. Obviously they could have just made a hard drive without all the need for updating software every month, and without firmware.. and without special backup programs.. So why all this crap? Is this an operating system or a hard drive? Why all this software for this shit. I should just plug it in, drag and drop, and shut it off at my own leisure like I do with my sata hard drive that I had for years.

 

But really power surges my ass. I am using a gigantic APC power surge protector for my computer and my hard drive is plugged into that. When I call tech support they tell me to plug it into a wall outlet. LOL I am thinking whats the difference? Does this hard drive not work on a APC unit now? It needs to be directly into a wall? Retarded.

Edited September 5, 2011 by Avast

[»Lynx]

tl;dr

 

I don't know if I should still use this.

 

If it's unreliable, probably not.

 

All I do with that is flick the switch and shut it off. AND NOTHING CRASHES. So why do these new craps they make need special shut down procedures?

 

Keep unmounting that disk without going through 'shut down procedures' and you'll find one day it's corrupted. It takes one second to unmount. Do it. You'll be sorry when you lose all your data.

[Avast]

Yeah well I never even shut off the 1 terabyte hard drive. It just decided to crash on it's own, probably after I restarted my PC one time.

 

The SATA Hard drive is fine. I didn't even notice you could unmount it until now. But the occasional times in the past year where I just flicked the switch, nothing has ever happened. It's been like 5 years. This is a good hard drive... that's the way it's meant to work. Not this ejecting crap =/