From: Godfrey DiGiorgi
My experience with WD drives is not great either. But not the drives
themselves, the enclosures. Once I ditched the 2T RAID case and moved
the drives into a third party RAID case, they became completely
reliable.
I don't know what crapware comes on any drive. Any drive I buy I
immediately reformat without looking at what's on it. I have
everything I need to manage drives built into OS X, don't want any of
that junk.
I have a stack of old failed IDE hard-drives waiting to go to the
crusher. Wake County (where I live) has a collection point that takes
old computer hardware & includes secure destruction for old hard-drives.
This discussion prompted me to take a look at them.
Sure enough, all of them are Western Digital.
Plus, now I won't be able to rest until I've pulled out all of my older
USB drives and exercised them, just to make sure none of them has failed
since I last used them.
I've already found that I misplaced one of the power (mains) cords.
Fortunately the cord from my D-BC50 battery charger fits.
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