25 WD Blue 500Gb drives failed

[NinjaGeek]

I work at a large University and in 20 years I have never seen a hard drive fail by itself. But over the last year I have had user after user call me because their system was not detecting the drive. Every single time, when I look at the HDD it is a WD Blue 500Gb.

Currently I have approx 25 of these dead drives.
It doesn’t matter what make or model the pc it comes in or if it is preinstalled or after market bought.

I have gotten to the point where when I get new machines, I open them up and if it is a WD, I swap it out. They have become way to unreliable to trust.

My mothers acer desktop died yesterday and low and behold… the drive was a WD Blue 500Gb.

I would like to see a recall or a solution come from WD for this issue, I know for sure that I can’t be the only one with these drives dying after a few months.

Can anyone else relate? Maybe we can get WD to do something.

[Peter.g]

Maybe you should try contacting WD’s Technical Support about this.

To Contact WD for Technical Support
http://support.wdc.com/support/case.aspx?lang=en

[rrothkopf]

Indeed this does sound like an entire batch of bad drives, and manufacturing defects that are prolific.

Today my 4th WD drive (WD Black) wouldn’t mount due to corruptions… this is getting old, frustrating, and always happens at the worst time.

[NinjaGeek]

It can’t be a bad batch.
It’s different drives from different times and locations.