In the past year, I've had 3 WD Black 1TBs die. There would be signs of it reaching the point of failure: movies would stop working at certain points, read/write would go down to 1.7ish MB/s when transferring between hdds, sometimes the hard drive would disappear.
I also have an Intel G2 80gb SSD, WD Blue 256gb SSD, WD Green 2TB, and Hitachi 2TB and they've all been fine for the last 18 months.
Could there be something wrong with the SATA connection on my board? Or am I just on a bad luck streak? Also, I looked up how much the drive costs now on Amazon - holy crap.
I did some googling and found this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/275524-32-important-data-recovery-broken-hard-drive . Is the WD Black 1TB just a bad line of drives? I also found this thread which hinted that AHCI (which I am using) may be affecting it http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/Problem-with-my-WD-Caviar-Black-1tb/td-p/93114 .
I also have an Intel G2 80gb SSD, WD Blue 256gb SSD, WD Green 2TB, and Hitachi 2TB and they've all been fine for the last 18 months.
Could there be something wrong with the SATA connection on my board? Or am I just on a bad luck streak? Also, I looked up how much the drive costs now on Amazon - holy crap.
I did some googling and found this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/275524-32-important-data-recovery-broken-hard-drive . Is the WD Black 1TB just a bad line of drives? I also found this thread which hinted that AHCI (which I am using) may be affecting it http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/Problem-with-my-WD-Caviar-Black-1tb/td-p/93114 .