Western Digital 300 GB Caviar Series EIDE Hard Drive ( ...

• Cool drive operating temperatures help increase long-term drive reliability
• 7200 RPM, 8 MB cache
• Data LifeGuard automatically detects, isolates and repairs problem areas that may develop over the extended use of the hard drive
• WD minimizes WD Caviar noise to levels virtually below the threshold of human hearing
• Data Lifeguard Tools software makes hard drive installation, management, and diagnostics simple and worry-free

Large capacity with good reasonable price:
I bougth this last week and it is absolutely great product to work with. Comes with everything you need to Install and is very quiet and response time is pretty good.

Lack of Support, Drives fail:
Lack of Support for Failed Drives Western Digital will not support your hard drive WHEN it fails. On November 16, 2004, I bought a 250GB hard drive. Three months later in February, 2005, I had to return it for a replacement due to a hard failure. Now, this replacement drive too has failed as well after only eight months. I went through two Western Digital drives in a year due to no fault of my own and the hard drive failed just six days after the warranty expiration. I requested a replacement from Western Digital and they completely ignored me. Buy at your own risk. Pros: None Cons: Lack of Support Drives fail

Died on me after 2 years, 5 months:
So this was my 2nd drive that i used for downloads and storing and playing video. After about 2 years 5 months, it died. Before it did, there was no death rattle, but occasionally it would disappear from my connected drives list. I thought it was a connection problem, so I kept opening the case to reconnect, but it still would disconnect unless something was actively accessing the drive. Finally after trying to upgrade windows, the data got corrupted and I lost everything. (This wasn't even the drive I was installing windows on!) I came to terms with losing my data and formatted the drive; however, it would not pass the Western Digital diagnostics test getting a "too many bad sectors" error. Well, I'm out of luck. This piece of trash only comes with a 1 year warrenty. The only way to get the 3 year advertised on WD's web site is to buy it at an inflated price from them! That's the end of my business with this company. Gooddbye, WD!. Will buy a seagate, hitachi or samsung.

Dead hard drive:
I bought one of these and it died within one reboot. It was reporting intermittent read/write errors. So I got another identical drive and within a week was completely dead this time. Must have been a bad batch from the manufacturer. Western Digital are usually great.

Dead drive:
Purchased due to cheap price and figured I could easily get my money out of it. Died within a couple of months light use. Won't even spin up. I prey WD tech support isn't as bad as comments make it out to be, but I am braced for the fact that my hard earned dollars are likely down the drain.