@thomasp Not sure about BluRay in particular, but cd's and dvd's have quite bad bitrot, and it's precisely the fact that this only shows up years later (when you're increasingly likely to depend on it) that makes it so unfortunate. Given that it's also an optical medium, I'd at least look it up and see if there's any…
My comments were also based on a company who interviewed me and told me that a majority of my work (at that time) would be replacing the WD Hdds because they were constantly failing, and the computer warrant would only replace it with the same drive, so they would fail every 6mos. That being said, I agree with the rest of…
My WD Passport was an absolute piece of garbage. It failed once and I lost every piece of software I had collected in the past 20 years. I thought perhaps it was just a corrupted master file table issue but after nearly losing the whole partition a second time, I had no doubt it was beginning to have mechanical problems.…
From what I've learned in reading through this thread, it's safe to say, WD's and Seagates will crap eventually, so the solution to our drives being faulty and losing all our work? Back them up on several hard drives and it's a good thing I've done that thus far throughout these past two years. I have three external HDD's…
From personal experience, the USB hard drives that use full sized desktop HDD's fail waaaaaaay more than the ones that use the smaller laptop sized HDD's. Over the past year I have been doing multiple (and I do mean multiple...) backups of data from servers to a portable storage for usage and archival. Of the drives we…
I've owned a MyBook for a couple years. It hasn't given me many problems, but I haven't used it often. Honestly, it's not very well made. And it is a typical hard drive, so it's not portable at all. I will say mine did survive a couple 7 hour flights, a few shorter flights, and a move...all within a luggage bag, and it…
Guess what buddy I lost 8 years of solid work on my last hard drive and you know (it was a western digital :O) Just as I was backing it up, it went kaputt on me. BUT.... If you can explain you're problem with the current WD HD you have (Before hitting it on something and possibly scratching the disks) could you tell me A.)…
i never have had a problem with a HD. I use WD since too many years, and i have some very very old WD external drives; they run as the first day :D A hard drive is sopposed to be static, if you move your HD you can have serious problems. Vibration is letal, so if you use external drives, plug them to your computer and…