WD drive developed bad spots, can it be trusted?

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I have a 1 year 1 month old WD1600, which is 1 month out of warranty ( how
convenient for their shareholders wealth! 1 year freakin' warranty?). It
recently developed a bad spot, which the WD "repair" utility fixed. However,
I'm not sure I can trust the drive. Since WD now has a worthless 1 year
warranty, the drive is out of warranty. My first inclination it to just
throw it in the trash (and stop buying WD drives). Can this drive be
trusted?
 
I have a 1 year 1 month old WD1600, which is 1 month out of warranty ( how
convenient for their shareholders wealth! 1 year freakin' warranty?). It
recently developed a bad spot, which the WD "repair" utility fixed. However,
I'm not sure I can trust the drive. Since WD now has a worthless 1 year
warranty, the drive is out of warranty. My first inclination it to just
throw it in the trash (and stop buying WD drives). Can this drive be
trusted?
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Hard to say. Ive generally read if the spots keep growing obviously
forget it. Its bad. If its due to something like a shock etc it might
be a one time thing for now.

I had a WD that developed all kind of bad sectors and started crashing
and clicking right after I bought it. I later found out I had a really
bad stick of memory that corrupted my WIN XP install and I had
formatted the WD in that state too. I was ready to send the WD back. I
low level formatted the WD and that was 6 months ago and havent had
any problems since then. Of course that doesnt mean itll work for you.
Most of my disks now are Seagates because of their 5 year warranties.
You can often find these drastically reduced like WD and Maxtor with
rebates but with 5 year warranties. Hitachis also have 3 year
warranties.

Out of 7 HDs I have now 4 are seagates and 1 a Hitachi. I have an old
Maxtor still running in a 3rd PC and 1 WD that came with my 2nd PC. I
still have that WD 200gig that was crashing and clicking too.
 
The "JB" Wd's have 3 years, pata sata. The worst WD I have ever run was a
"BB" ... avoid those and rack up 20000 hrs silently (I'm only on 3rd with a
few pc's over a few years)
I doubt I'd ever even keep a drive 5 years, after 2years I'm itchin to keep
up with upgrades!
 
This is a JB, but it definitely has a 1 year warranty :(

I've had good luck with WD in recent years, and a few of my old Maxtors
still run - unlike all of the newer Maxtors (> 20GB) that have all long
since died and gone into the trash. This is actually the first WD I've had
problems with.
 
This is a JB, but it definitely has a 1 year warranty :(

I've had good luck with WD in recent years, and a few of my old Maxtors
still run - unlike all of the newer Maxtors (> 20GB) that have all long
since died and gone into the trash. This is actually the first WD I've had
problems with.
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Yeah all the WD and Maxtors sold through COMPUSA on sale with huge
rebates have all been 1 year that Ive seen. Thats why it was
surprising at first to see Seagate finally rebated down to the 29-49
range and still carry a 5 year and finally recently Hitachi too.
 
The "JB" Wd's have 3 years, pata sata.
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No, a few years ago their warranty was shortened to 1 year
on the retail versions- only OEM had 3 years but on OEM, the
warranty may not apply rather than being through the OEM.
So if "you" are the OEM, buying directly, then you get the 3
years.

The worst WD I have ever run was a
"BB" ... avoid those and rack up 20000 hrs silently (I'm only on 3rd with a
few pc's over a few years)
I doubt I'd ever even keep a drive 5 years, after 2years I'm itchin to keep
up with upgrades!
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So you just throw the drives away? 5 years is old enough
any drive shouldn't really be trusted anymore but after 2,
there are plenty of uses... just give the drive to somebody
who needs it.
 
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