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| Posted: Fri Dec 11th, 2009 11:57 pm |
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Jim Father 
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I had to warranty a hard drive for a customer of mine, a western digital 160G that was almost a year old. It took a royal crap no hope of recovery. So after I slid a spare 160 I had to him to get him going I sent the hard drive back to WD to see if they were for real about the 3 year replacement policy. It's been less than 3 weeks and I get a brand new HD today.... a 250G. SO don't hesitate to go on line and generate a RMA for a spent WD hard drive, just read carefully the fine print about packaging. I'm going to go through my "pile" and look at the mfg dates now! Jim
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| Posted: Sat Dec 12th, 2009 01:07 am |
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§issie License Holder /Paul's blonde 
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 cool... now thats worth spreading the good news do you think i could send them my stepson and them send me something back better ???  sorry my stepson is being alil untrustworthy tonight  but im so happy for you ... its not that often you get and hear about such good news when dealing with warranties
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| Posted: Sat Dec 12th, 2009 02:57 am |
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Jim Father
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Was he made by Western Digital LOL?
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| Posted: Sat Dec 12th, 2009 07:14 pm |
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§issie License Holder /Paul's blonde
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Jim wrote: Was he made by Western Digital LOL? he went to Western Michigan for his first year of college does that count ??? he's only had one year cuz 'he' can not afford any more.. that is why he has joined the National Guard Reserves  he leaves for basic Jan 3rd  he will be gone for 23 weeks
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13th, 2009 12:59 am |
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Midnight Tech License Holder
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I had to RMA a Seagate once - they sent me back a refurb  .Sissie - is his basic at Ft. Jackson? Last edited on Sun Dec 13th, 2009 01:00 am by Midnight Tech |
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| Posted: Sun Dec 13th, 2009 02:41 am |
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§issie License Holder /Paul's blonde
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Midnight Tech wrote: I had to RMA a Seagate once - they sent me back a refurb yes Fort Jackson ... how did you know ??? Last edited on Sun Dec 13th, 2009 02:42 am by §issie |
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| Posted: Mon Dec 14th, 2009 02:45 am |
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Midnight Tech License Holder
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§issie wrote: Midnight Tech wrote:I had to RMA a Seagate once - they sent me back a refurb Jackson trains 50% of the US Army's male soldiers - plus it's halfway between FL and NY so it's pretty logical they'd send him there.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 15th, 2009 09:12 pm |
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wingnutter Forever Learning 
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That's good service from WD Jim, well done.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 8th, 2010 02:51 pm |
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John Floyd License Holder 
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IMHO, WD has the best hard Drive out there in the WD6401AALS 640GB , Its a 2 platter drive, The Next one up has 3 platters The WD7501AALS 750GB Both are 32MB Cache. Less head swapping and faster operation I swapped out (4) 750's For (4) 640's recently and don't regret it for a minute. I would rather have (4) 640 Gb Drives than anything larger, Less time to defragment and run any other maintenance on.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 8th, 2010 04:36 pm |
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Jim Father
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What did you do with the 750's?
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| Posted: Fri Jan 8th, 2010 06:43 pm |
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John Floyd License Holder
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Traded Them.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 9th, 2010 05:54 pm |
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John Floyd License Holder
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Acronis True image for Western Digital Drives - Free Download, Software and Manual http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en I bought Acronis True image 2009 about 6 or 7 months ago and I like This Better. Simple and easy to use. Last edited on Sat Jan 9th, 2010 06:04 pm by John Floyd |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21st, 2010 04:34 pm |
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Jim Father
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Well it's been 3 months and the replacement they sent me is giving headaches. I didn't install it till about a month after I had it. It makes noise and has locked up on me more than once. SOOO I take back everything good I said. I'll still buy their products because they are mildly better than the rest but if something goes wrong I'll just eat it to save me headaches and buy a new one.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 21st, 2010 11:00 pm |
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Midnight Tech License Holder
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Is it going "clicka-clicka-clicka" on boot?
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 01:43 am |
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Jim Father
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And sometimes at random when it locks up. Mounting it on it's side worked for a day. It goes "naaaaaaaayaaaaaaaayaaaaaaaayaaaaa" also at random I'm now posting from a customers server that I just happened to load windows 7 on to test. The other one is scrapped. It won't run for 10 minutes. This sucks.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 01:49 am |
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Midnight Tech License Holder
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Jim wrote: And sometimes at random when it locks up. Mounting it on it's side worked for a day. It goes "naaaaaaaayaaaaaaaayaaaaaaaayaaaaa" also at random Majorly. Especially with having to reload the OS and everything.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 01:57 am |
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Jim Father
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Well I enjoy that but it affects service. I just re did it from the virus thing a few weeks ago and have all my shortcuts in a row. It's just a waste of time. We all need SSD's, I hope they come down in price in the next couple years... all the data 1 servers will have a pair.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 02:04 am |
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Midnight Tech License Holder
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SSDs.....drool...cut that out! I want to upgrade my main machine to 7...but with XP I'd either have to do a wipe and install or leapfrog it thru Vista....
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 02:10 am |
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Jim Father
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Wiping is usually not a bad thing in any walk of life.
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| Posted: Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 02:26 am |
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Midnight Tech License Holder
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Too much stuff to reinstall....it'd take a month to get it back like it is now.
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