WD 640GB failures :mad:

Mussels · Aug 20, 2008

Bleh. my *second* one of these drives just died today.

Bought two, both lasted less than 3 days before dying - they attempt to spin up, click and repeat. Give it 30 seconds or so and the drives power down completely.

Looking at the egg, lots of people have reported the same problem - less than 5% of total owners, but a few of them mention multiple drives like myself making me think its related to bad batches of drives.

Just a little bitch about losing 400GB of data

and a warning - if you get a 640GB WD6400AAKS drive... test it for a week before putting anything valuable on it.

alexp999 · Aug 20, 2008

Mine has been running for about a week or two now. have run a 3hr test and two quick tests on it, and all passed with 0 errors. Does that mean I should be okay. is it a case of they will either last a couple of years or a couple of days.

Hope you have better luck with the next drive!

lemonadesoda · Aug 20, 2008

Mussels said:
Looking at the egg, lots of people have reported the same problem - less than 5% of total owners, but a few of them mention multiple drives like myself making me think its related to bad batches of drives.

Or bad delivery service, or shelf stocking. That type of failure is common with "dropped" HDDs.

Mussels · Aug 20, 2008

lemonadesoda said:
Or bad delivery service, or shelf stocking. That type of failure is common with "dropped" HDDs.

i got them directly from a local store (centercom in bendigo, to any aussies out there - avoid)

They replace them fast (on the spot warranty) but they didnt even try to get the data back.

If you've had one of these drives more than a week you should be fine, it seems the problems are showing up within 3 days for most people (i've been googling a lot while the HDD is in the freezer)

alexp999 · Aug 20, 2008

Phew! And freezer? :wtf:

Mussels · Aug 20, 2008

never done the freezer trick? Freeze a dying HDD for 4+ hours, and you'll often get 15-30 minutes more life out of it. trick is to seal it in a bag so condensation cant form when you take it out (aka dont put a cold metal object in a warm room)

alexp999 · Aug 20, 2008

Mussels said:
never done the freezer trick? Freeze a dying HDD for 4+ hours, and you'll often get 15-30 minutes more life out of it. trick is to seal it in a bag so condensation cant form when you take it out (aka dont put a cold metal object in a warm room)

Wow, never heard of that before. Hope it works for you to get your data back.

Mussels · Aug 20, 2008

in the past i've had 3 of 5 hard drives 'fixed' by this. It just gives you enough time to get the data off.

One of em had hte condensation issue and burst into flames, lol. that was funny at first, but the 1TB drive didnt like it. (it had been dropped, and it had no warranty so there was nothing to risk)

We'll know soon enough if the freezing has worked or not, but this has really put me off WD drives again.

edit: i just tried it (roughly the 1 hour mark) and while the drive still span up and down, it didnt click. I think leaving it for longer may actually work.

LAN_deRf_HA · Aug 31, 2008

There are 3 possibilities. You could have just been very unlucky, the people who handle your packages could be rougher than most, or it could be a psu issue. I almost lost 3 drives at different times due to how I had hooked up my system's rails. All of those drives and the psu went on to live happy lives when configured in other systems. I hope you can get a good 640 because personally I think they're the best price/perf/storage drives out there.

Mussels · Aug 31, 2008

LAN: The drives died on two rigs with two different sets of power, and both worked perfectly *until* the system shut down, at which point they didnt power on again.

If they were damaged or it was bad power, you'd expect them to fail from the start, not run perfectly until turned off...

Pinchy · Aug 31, 2008

I got 2 of the 320GB varients and they seem good to me.

Poor mussels lol hopefully you can get your data back

Mussels · Aug 31, 2008

nope pinchy, all data was lost

Pinchy · Aug 31, 2008

thats no good at all.

Was it important stuff (ie, resume's/tax files/etc) or important "shiz" (ie, music/games etc)?

Mussels · Aug 31, 2008

it was 400GB of anime on the first one, and i dont actually KNOW what was on the second... so its going to be a while before i know what got lost.

thebeephaha · Sep 1, 2008

Mussels said:
it was 400GB of anime on the first one

holy dang....

WarEagleAU · Sep 1, 2008

I was thinking of purchasing one of those too to go along with my 320gb drive and giving me roughly a terabyte of storage....looks like Ill avoid them and go for the full monty 1tb green drives and get me a velociraptor for OS and games.

deathvirus_me · Sep 6, 2008

Its been 10 days that i've been using two of these drives .. haven't face any problems yet, and hope that these don't fail on me coz i've everything dumped in these .. performance seems fine, and i've been defragmenting a lot coz of my new installs

, OS and applications and games etc. etc.

Mussels · Sep 7, 2008

my third one seems ok, its lasted around 5 days now and i've copied data on and off it, defragged it, etc.

bud951 · Sep 7, 2008

I have 3 of the 640gb drives running in raid 5 for about 3 months with no problems. Got them from newegg and they were packed well with hard foam seperating them and bubblewrap all around. I bought mine around the time when alot of complaints were being posted so I think they started taking better care when packaging. Good luck!

pepsi71ocean · Sep 7, 2008

this is scary, i was looking at a WD 640GB drive for my bros old computer for mass storage. athouhg ive never had any issues with IDE hdd's tho.

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