[mdlug-discuss] Westren Digital foot shooting

[Grant]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 14:11:32 -0500
Wolfger <wolfger at gmail.com> wrote:

> I read about that earlier today on TechDirt. I *was* looking at buying
> a 500 GB Western Digital SATA for Christmas. Now I'll shop around for
> a different brand.
> 
> On Dec 7, 2007 2:07 PM, Garry Stahl <tesral at comcast.net> wrote:
> > http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/12/western-digital.html
> >
> > Well they lost me as a customer.  I use to like WD.  Their drives
> > out number all the others I have.
> >
> > --
> > Garry  AKA  --Phoenix--  Rising above the Flames.
> >
> > Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes
> > Star Trek mort. Viva la Star Trek admiraetur
> > The Olde Phoenix Inn Http://phoenixinn.iwarp.com
> >
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> 
Just another example of what you can get when you don't do things for
yourself. When I decided that I needed network storage I grabbed a
garbage picked machine, stuffed in a second PSU, a couple controller
cards and a stack of drives.

BTW, I stopped looking at WD stuff a couple years ago when they cut the
warranty on some of their HD's from 3yr to 1yr and started the clock
from date of manufacture. That "little" move almost cost me a warranty
replacement on a drive that died after only 4mo.

--
Grant