New My Book external HDs from WD

Nice drive. Too bad it doesn't work as an external boot drive on a PPC Mac. I had to find this out the hard way. See, for example: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5859938&tstart=0

After reading the SuperDuper! manual, I went out and got a Maxtor. Works great. Plus I got 500GB for $40 less than the 320GB MyBook. Go figure.

BTW, I second Billy K's comment. People always complain about a particular brand if they get a dud. Anybody have any actual statistics on failure rates for different brands? Without that it's all anecdotal. What matters more is whether they actually work for what you want to use them for - like external booting. For the record, these WD drives don't.

Is 6000rs is correct value for this HD??
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This HD was damn sexy.....i have planned to get a new external hard disk....so after seeing this picture and the comments given by the people i was confirmed to get it within next week ...may i know the cost of this external HD

This HD was damn sexy.....i have planned to get a new external hard disk....so after seeing this picture and the comments given by the people i was confirmed to get it within next week ...may i know the cost of this external HD

I was disappointed that there was no Firewire 800 model. I will definitely be scooping up some of the old ones if they go on clearance.

People can be so brandcentric. I have bought Seagate, WD, Maxtor and Hitachi drives over the past few years. ALL of them ended up being problematic. I've used them in different locations, on different devices, and internally or externally.

Doesn't matter.

I've talked with friends about this and they've noticed it too. We concluded that it might be the larger capacities. Or something

I don't know. It's very frustrating. I just lost a 20,000 song music collection on both a primary and backup drive that failed right around the same time.

I have these WD drives now. I'm sure they're going to fail, too.

The only hard drive I ever owned (out of, what, 30? 40?) that died was the My Book Essential I just tossed in the trash bin. No thanks.

Do any of the WD drives work as an Airport Disk?

Glyph GT050 series sre the shit: . They use Seagate of-course.

I have no particular allegiance to any particular drive maker. I've owned/used many over the years. The one thing I know for a fact is, there is always a group of people out there ready to say, "Blahblahblah drives suck! I had one die on me after 1 month/6months/1year!" Just check the comments on Newegg.

My last external was a LaCie. I liked LaCie, had used them at work extensively, so when it was time to buy an external for home, I went with LaCie. And then I started hearing the horror stories. So when it was time to buy another drive, I went with Western Digital - partly for price, partly for reputation and a lot because of form factor. Then I started noticing the horror stories about them. I swear if I bought a Seagate tomorrow I would suddenly trip over 80 pages of Seagate horror stories on some forum.

All drives can fail. All drive makers make duds. YMMV, grain of salt, etc.