Western Digital Internal EIDE 160GB 7200RPM Hard Drive (WD1600JBRTL)

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Summary: Crashed 3 times, lost a LOT of data
Review: I bought this hard drive, and it crashed after a week. Sent it back to WD with the warrentee, got a new hard drive. That one crashed after 2 months. Got another new one, and that one crashed in less than 1 month. I have lost a LOT of data due to Western Digital's faulty hardware, and I STRONGLY advise that you look to some other hard drive service, do NOT buy from western digital!

ps. WD will refuse to do any sory of data recovery on their crashed drives, and the services they recomend will cost more than 10x what the hard drives cost.

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Summary: Western Digital makes good drives at good prices
Review: I have used nothing but Western Digital drives for the last 12 years. The 80MB (yes, that's MB, as in megabyte, for those who haven't been in this game for that long....) drive that I bought 12 years ago is still going strong, as is the 540MB drive that I bought 10 years ago, the 4.6GB drive I bought 6 years ago, and the 20GB drive that I bought 2 years ago. These are all running 24/7 in a Linux server, and not once in all these years have I had to repair a filesystem due to bad sectors. I fully expect this one to last as long as the others as well.

Oh, and as for the other reviewer who had two of these drives fail within days or weeks, I would be much more likely to suspect that the controller, its drivers, or the cable were at fault than the disks - you need to use good quality ribbon cables, no more than 18 inches in length, with ATA-100 disks. And it goes without saying that you also need a good controller with stable drivers. Cheap motherboards often contain cheap EIDE controllers with buggy drivers. Use quality components and good drives (Western Digital) and you should have no problems.