Western Digital External HDD

[RedLightNation]

Does anyone here own, or use elsewhere, a Western Digital HDD? I have seen that they offer models specific to mac and also some models designed for 'creative professionals'. Any help and info on these drives would be much appreciated.

Cheers

[Gary Nattrass]

Hmmm I have had one WD USB back up portable drive for my PT system and it is totally trashed after 6 months, it can not be re-formatted and has totally died, it gave up when I plugged in my PSU to my macbook pro.

My other drives are a g-tech 750gig quad drive, a lacie D2 300gig drive and a lacie 80 gig rugged drive, I have not had any problems with these over the past year.

Hope this helps.

[ladewd]

When I opened up my Lacie drive there was a Western Digital drive in it. I've had one WD drive die, also an IBM and Maxtor. I think they're all about the same. I've never had a Seagate fail on me. There are only a few bare hard drive manufacturers. The cases and power supplies come from other companies.

CA

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[douzanis]

I've had one for a couple of years and it's still working fine. It wasn't very expensive, but I record all my sessions to it. Maybe once or twice it has dissappeared from my desk top but when I reset it it always come back.

[OddsAre]

OWC Mercury's are pretty damn reliable and best of all no cooling fan, so no need to hide it or isolate it... dead silent. Most WD External's I have seen had noisy fans.

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