Members th_resonator_v2 Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 I've got 2 of them, and now I've had to send back the 2nd one (a newer 750 with the blue circle lights) for the 3rd time (the first one a 400gig with the green circle light, ive sent back twice as well)..and I've only had them for about 11 months now.Has anyone else experienced this difficulty?I've got about 6 other externals, everything from a lacie 250 (the cool one that says "design by porsche") to an unknown homemade one and I've never had a single problem with any of them.What happens with these is that their boot files become corrupted so that your computer recognizes them as external drive devices in device manager, etc but you cannot access any information/data on them.I've ceased putting anything important on them because I had to pay 1100$ to have a data recovery service get back some session files and samples I couldn't have realistically reproduced (unique live sessions with musicians and combinations of people/instruments I couldnt do again)...but I have to use external drives a good bit because I travel and do a lot of work on laptops and othe rcomputers and I refuse to connect the computers and network in the studio with any internet or other network for fear of data corruption, theft, or just plain virus/infection problems.Anyone else had problems with these and sample/session/midi/.wav file data? thanks for any replies..and ps-NEVER BUY ONE, obviously. -TR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zeronyne Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 I have 4 of them. One is the 1TB white with blue circle, 3 are the FW/USB Black with blue circle. I travel with two of them on a weekly basis and I've never had a problem with any of them. This does not diminish your concerns, but if you exchanged them at the same store, even a big box store, you may be getting pieces from the same batch, even if you space out the exchanges over months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zeronyne Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 Oh, by the way, these drives (and I know that they switch out the actual drive from time to time), are NOT recommended for recording multitrack audio. Samples or other non-realtime data has never been a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Meatball Fulton Posted January 15, 2008 Members Share Posted January 15, 2008 I use WD drives for backups only. They have been working fine for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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