ARRGGG another RMA

[Dauntae]

I just got the last piece for a build and the customer wants it ASAP. and when I went to install windows I got that dreaded blue screen so I started the whole trouble shooting routine checking ram and all connections and even tried the ram from another pc to see if it worked, but nothing!!! then I noticed a humming noise coming from the HD, so I put a old 30 gig in I had lying around and what do you know..... windows installed no problem DOH out of the last 4 WD hard drives 2 of them have been RMAed (this is the 4th WD HD) mine was the first to die but mine waited a few weeks to die:freak: but this one was DOA... Sending this back is cutting into my profits DOH Ok rant over. This is the one going into the mail tomorrow. Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AAJS 320GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - Internal Hard Drives


Dauntae

 

[meat_helmet]

Seagate are supposed to be more reliable, but not by a huge amount. Just bad luck i think mate. But if you want to change the 7200.11 Seagates are almost as fast.

 

[baron5]

from my experience i like the western digital better, the seagate 320gb 7200.10 i had was actually quite noisy compared to my new 320g wd. but out of all the hard drives ive have inckluding customer, none have died on me yet.

 

[Dauntae]

I've always liked WD and have had good luck with many others but this particular size is a 50/50 for good ones so far.... I guess i have bad luck on this one LOL had a long night that ended with the blue screen of death so it didn't have me in the best of moods. I talked to customer and he's going to take it with a extra 80 gig I had until his comes back from the RMA. What can I do, stuff happens Now I have to go neaten up some wires and load some programs.

Dauntae