[ale] OT: Quality of current WD HDs?

[Geoffrey]

I've heard the horror stories too, but I've got a 10 gig and 4 gig WD 
drives still running, never had a problem with either and those were 
both purchased when they were pretty much the bleeding edge, so, YMMV.


Jeff Layton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>    I'm looking at buying a Western Digital HD for a root drive
> on my home box. I'm looking at a simple 20 Gig WD200BB
> drive (7200 rpm, 2 MB cache). I've heard horror stories in
> the past, but I didn't know if there were any issues with
> current drives. If anyone has a better recommendation, I'm
> all ears (just ask my kids).
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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