I've always got on with Seagate, because they'll take just my opinion that
it's defective, and replace.
On 6 August 2010 02:31, Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
> 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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