Re: [Hampshire] Testing Western Digital drives now needs Win…

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Author: Andy Smith
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Testing Western Digital drives now needs Windows

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Hi Keith,

On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 01:24:37PM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote:
> We contacted WD support to find out which version did support
> those disks, and where we could download it from, and we were
> told:
>
> "the drive is question can be tested on windows only"


Are they requiring you to run those diagnostics to RMA the drives,
or is it just something you wanted to do for more info?

I currently favour the WD "Green Power" drives, but might
re-evaluate if it turned out I couldn't easily RMA them. Although
failure rate has been quite low (2 out of around 40 drives, in 3
years).

Cheers,
Andy

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