I have been buying Western Digital drives for years and years. That has stopped now. I just had the fourth drive in less than a year fail on me. Three computers, four failed drives. All drives between two and four years old. I have never had so many drives fail on me. This one was in my media center and took out about 500GB of media files. Thankfully I recently backed them up so I didn’t lose them permanently but putting in a new Segate 1TB drive and restoring the files isn’t how I wanted to spend time on this weekend.
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Eerie…I just replaced my wife’s WD 250 GB Tuesday. I did replace it with another WD, however, an “eco-drive” model that will hopefully be less power hungry (because we’ve never been able to get XP’s sleep to work correctly with her home-built PC).
And I’m NOT putting her on Vista; I don’t want to be murdered in the middle of the night…
I remembered seeing a previous post about you using Vista Media Center. I searched around for an alternative, because I found it to be limited, Media Portal is pretty nice. Lots of supported files, plugins, and great themes. Just thought I would drop the hint.
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/