In fact it DOES very much sound like a hardware issue.
I’ve never seen this issue affect so many ppl & apparently be ignored by the manufacturer.
I also have this problem, along with so many other ppl if you run searches on Google it’s not funny.
I’m using Win XP Pro SP2 and to add…
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The issue happens even in Safe Mode.
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The issue happens even on a newly-formatted system
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The issue will happen when burning, playing games, surfing the web, recording audio, at ‘rest’ and the list goes on.
It’s even happening to a friend using Linux, so it’s OS-independent and definately a hardware issue with these drives!
Basically, the best thing i can put it down to is the drive cache / Windows Paging file write.
I will never buy another WD Green drive…but if you do, do NOT even consider using one as a boot / root drive as this is were the problems kick off from - as a secondary drive it doesn’t seem to affect things so much.
Sorry i should add, this is a WD5000AADS-00S drive i’m using, my problems only started the minute i made the mistake of using this as a boot drive.
Would be good if WD would actually answer this themselves methinks?
