![]() ![]() Using it for 5 months now, no issues yet.Well, as was no great surprise to me, here we again have one of Western digital's absolute finest drives ever to be made by this awesome company!!□When my friend asked me to help them upgrade their system with a new hard drive, there was no doubt that the first choice I was going to make it was easily going to be Beyond any shadow of any doubt Western Digital. ![]() Disconnected and repackaged it, now contemplating next move.Įdit: Ended up taking it up to seagate customer service, RMAed it, they gave me a new hard drive, with warranty, delivered in a properly cushioned box. ![]() Gnome disks can't initialize the drive, gparted fails to scan drive and complains about IO errors. Boot linux live distro, with the SATA cable from my Crucial SSD connected to this drive on the off chance the cable was bad. Connect the drive again, Windows disk management asks to intialize drive, click initialize, fails with IO error. ![]() Order a replacement, replacement gets delivered 3 days later in torn up packaging held together with rubber bands. Decided not ok, disconnect the drive and repackaged it. I check gnome disks, 2590+ bad sectors, drive health reduced to 99 from 100, still says ok. Try transferring files from old hard disk (HGST, 1TB, 3 years old, zero bad sectors), after about 100GB transfer, rsync slows down and begins to complain. Do a brief research and found that this alone might not make it a bad drive, the number may not even go up. Connect it to desktop to try transferring some files, right off the bat gnome disks says 1700+ bad sectors, however drive health is ok. Ordered this drive on Amazon sale, first one delivered within a day. ![]()
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