Western Digital 40GB / 7200rpm reliability?

[netsurfer]

I bought a hard drive from Dell (through some really slick 20% off + $30 of $100 coupon deal), which didn't say who the manufacturer was... just that it was used in Dell Dimension 4100/8100 series... turned out to be a WD 7200rpm 40gig; WD400. I recall a year or more ago that WD really was horrible and that many people experienced DOA's, or failures with WD drives early on... how is the current generation of WD? I remember 5 years ago Maxtor was horrible, I still have a Maxtor 850meg to remind me... but the more recent generation of maxtors were pretty reliable... i have a 40 gig 7200rpm Maxtor too...

Can someone shed some light/experiences? Thanks!

[MaxVal]

W.D. has had some problems over the years, the most serious being a run of failure prone chips a few years ago.
I have used many different drives in dozens of boxes and have had no recent trouble with the W.D.'s
I'm using a 400bb in this box and I am very happy with it!
MAX

[jjstanl1]

I'm dealing with WD tech support right trying to get an RMA for my second WD400 that has died in the last 6 months. I really liked the drives when they were working. I've been thinking that it may be a problem with my old BX motherboard, but it's most likely the drives. Just bought a 40 GB Maxtor to be sure.

[OC Guy]

My dad works in the IS department where he works. When a hard drive dies, he brings it home for me and him to try to revive. Every hdd he has brought home dead was a Western digital, exept one, it was a Maxtor 10gig, we revived the Maxtor though, to bad the wd's where really dead.
Just my .02 worth.

[Kuasimodem]

I'm running 2 30Gb ATA100 WD's in a RAID 0 array with no problems, they're nice quiet drives too.

[NDC]

yeah, I've been seeing posts regarding how unreliable Western Digital hard drives are... However, that's all I use for my IDE based systems and haven't had a single problem with any of them. The worst luck I've had with hard disks is definetly IDE Seagate and Quantum drives...

[crazyray]

I'm running two of them now without troubles. The only HD's I've had trouble with were Fujitsu's...

[scoots987]

Kuasimodem

Where did you get the raid 0 card? Got any suggestions?

Scoots987