I have experienced two incidences of failed WD hdd. as a rule, therefore, I keep away from them. I don't know that you can pin it to one supplier, but perhaps WD should make a recall???? On 1/31/12, Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com> wrote:
Coincidentally, after Alvin posted an advert on this list regarding some WD hard-disks that he had in stock a while back (1st April last year; no kidding ;-)), I contacted him regarding the Western Digital Scorpio Blue 5400RPM model. Hard luck. He had none of those low RPM models. I went ahead and procured a new 750 GB version from amazon.com.
The effing disk later conked up some time in Oct/Nov. In my case, this happened while transferring some PS3 game backups onto the disk (I had upgraded the console's internal HDD using the WD disk.) As much as I would admit that the frequent brown-outs occurring at the time may have taken their toll, you have just aroused my curiosity, Wash.
My HDD seems to have suffered some serious logical fault.
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