- 160 GB Ultra ATA/100 internal hard drive
- 7200 RPM, 8 MB buffer
- Up to 100 MB/s burst transfer rates; data protection enhancments
- 40-pin EIDE
- Fits 3.5-inch bay
Product Description
Western Digital hard drives with 8MB cache are designed to maximize desktop computer performance for activities requiring high-performance storage such as computer gaming, digital video editing, and file server applications. If you are a digital camera or MP3 enthusiast, this drive can deliver the storage capacity and performance you need to organize and preserve your digital life…. More >>
Western Digital 160GB EIDE Internal Hard Drive with 8MB Cache
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Lack of Support for Failed Drives
by neever, Dec 07 ‘05
Western Digital will not support your hard drive WHEN it fails. On November 16, 2004, I bought a 250GB hard drive. Three months later in February, 2005, I had to return it for a replacement due to a hard failure. Now, this replacement drive too has failed as well after only eight months.
I went through two Western Digital drives in a year due to no fault of my own and the hard drive failed just six days after the warranty expiration. I requested a replacement from Western Digital and they completely ignored me.
Buy at your own risk.
Pros:
None
Cons:
Lack of Support Drives fail
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.
I recently purchased this item, and I was extremely disappointed. It was a horrible experience trying to install this item. The instructions for the drive did not match the type of drive, and on the western digital website, it didn’t even list this drive to get instructions for. So, I followed the instructions that came with it to a T, to install the drive as a boot drive, copying all my information from my current drive, which was about to fail. It seemed to copy the files just fine and work ok as a slave drive, but then my original hard drive failed, and I moved this supposidly boot drive to be the single drive on my machine it would not work. Upon calling customer service to find out what was wrong, I was asked, did you make the boot drive through windows or dos? I told her I just popped in the disk they gave me and ran it, and followed the instructions, click on “I want to make a boot drive” and not on “I want to make a drive for additional service.” She said that it sounds like I did it through windows mode, and it won’t make a boot drive in windows mode, only if I was in dos mode. I asked her why this was not explained in the instructions, and now I had no original boot drive to try to do it again. She told me to run windows recovery. I asked if she could help me do that, because I couldn’t figure it out, and she said no, windows isn’t our product so we won’t help you with that. I said, but if this is what I need to install this drive, it says you are supposed to offer me free installation help for 30 days, why won’t you help me. Then I was spoken to as if I was a problem customer – you know, “MAAM, I TOLD YOU I CAN’T HELP YOU” in a nasty tone.
I ended up going out, buying another hard drive to use as my primary and then installing windows from scratch, and having to reinstall all the drivers and programs I had on this new drive and I kept the western digital drive for a backup.
All in all, I thought this was a waste of money, a waste of hours upon hours of time, and a terrible experience. I would never recommend purchasing this product.
I’m sure this is a fine hard drive but if you own a Mac running system OS X 10.2 or above, you will need to purchase additional hardware to install it. It is rather difficult to discern that until you open the box. Mac users beware.
the harddrive was easy to install; and for the price
a good deal! from ordering thru delivery everything well, a nice way to do buisness.