Are Western Digital Drives reliable?
Have been a maxtor and seagate user since I've known computers but with the warranty cut down to 3 years by seagate, tried moving to WD drives. Bought a Blue Caviar last March ( 2009 ) and set it to raid 0 along with a seagate drive. Last night, my pc won't start because the drive started having bad sectors. Tracked the culprit to be the 4-month old WD drive. Lost quite a lot of pron stored on my raid which I haven't trasferred to my server yet. Been considering about 4 WD Green for my Unraid server but if they're not as reliable, might stick with seagate after all. As I just found out, warranty is just second to reliability of the drives. Yes they will probably replace it but the lost data and the hassle of waiting and setting up your pc again really sucks.