Western Digital Caviar SE EIDE 120 GB Hard Drive user reviews

Cons Failed after about 8 months....installed it as a second hard drive for my picture & video files....now I can't retrieve them! Very upset! Will not buy another WD drive. on October 28, 2004  | Read full review

Summary I have used Western Digital 40GB, 60GB, 80GB and 120GB drives in computers. I presently have a 120GB with a 80GB back up. The drives work well together. Hundreds of giga bytes of data has been passed between these drives as I have processed DVD videos of our family. All of my WD drives have performed well. The only reason I replaced them is my need for--More Storage!

Cons About three times over the life of this drive, file system erroirs were reported on bootup. Sure wIsh i had took these warnings more seriously. on June 16, 2005 by noodle2  | Read full review

Summary Drive smart failed after 9 days of use (click, whirr...clunk - repeat). I lost all my data. I've got a new replacement, but I'm leery now. Logic tells me that it must be an isolated failure, but that doesn't seem to help.

Summary I was initially excited about this hard drive as it had decent reviews here @ Cnet. I also had heard a lot about this line of hard drives being very unreliable and prone to failure, but thought that i would purchase it anyway and see for myself. The first two weeks it worked fine, now I'm on 3rd week and for some reason it started to make noise and crash. I lost two weeks of work. The second HD I have is a WD also and it is starting to make some noise.

Summary Much quieter and faster than any other hard drives I have owned. I leave my computer on almost constantly and have never had any problems with this drive so far. The drive seems to be able to do more at once than my other drive with a 2MB buffer. The 8MB does make a definite performance increase especially when dealing with very large files.

Summary This drive out runs one of my other computers with a SCSI hardrive. Extremely fast and a nice amount of space.

Cons Lack of Support, Drives fail on December 7, 2005 by neever  | Read full review

Cons None on January 12, 2005  | Read full review

Cons None yet (knock wood) :-) on December 9, 2004  | Read full review

Cons None to date on October 14, 2004  | Read full review

Cons The drive failed after 10 months of normal use, with nor warning. WD Support was easy to deal with, but the product was replaced with a refurbished item, instead of new. Overall, I still believe these are the best drives. on September 1, 2004  | Read full review

Cons Failed abruptly. Started clicking and the dreaded error message "Disk Failure..." appeared. on July 15, 2004  | Read full review

Cons This damn thing is loud. Not to disparage those who say it's quiet, I'm assuming they have their PC in the next state or something. With my PC on my desk, it sounds like a bloody Harrier hovering. If you like the sound of a screaming turbine, you'll love on July 9, 2004  | Read full review

Cons after continous running they died and warranty somehow being missed by as close 1 month on April 25, 2004  | Read full review

Cons Had 16 of them installed in our server. Nine failed so far (6 months after purchase). on April 14, 2004  | Read full review

Pros Bought it to replace my IBM, that was on it's last legs. Installation was a breeze with the software provided, and I am by no means a techie. It's in a P-3 Gateway running 300 megs, and it recognized the whole 120 Gigs. I have been renning it all week ins

Cons so far no problems on March 2, 2004  | Read full review

Cons Bought as a second drive -especially for DV storage. Died on first day of use. SMART errors, drive failing. Ugh. Thank God I lost nothing! on March 2, 2004  | Read full review