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Western Digital MyBook Essential Edition 120GB external hard drive

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    "3 Drives Failed SMART test within a week!"

    by omegareport--2008 on July 9, 2007

    Pros: installs easy, aesthetic

    Cons: has to run CHKDSK on every bootup

    Summary: The drives worked beautifully for less than a week (2 new 500 Gb Essential version, 1 160 Gb Essential version), then went to a blue screen error on every bootup with tens of thousands of "file record segment unreadable" errors in contiguous blocks of 4 and 6. Ran WD test - SMART test failed, it could not run an extended test at all. No help from WD (which has long been my favorite brand of HD-over 10 years). All 3 drives fail on every test on every computer (Win XP SP2). Completely destroyed all my backups (only reason for buying this product)!!!
    I think their quality control really collapsed on this one!

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