I know about rule 1, but this shit is rediculous.

AVOID these PoSs at all costs:

Yeah, I got my hate on for some WD crapware.  In the past month, I’ve had two of these enclosures simply die (did pull the 250Gb working drives), one WD 500Gb developed the click of death (no data recovery, was also a boot drive) and another 500Gb that the SMART freaked out on (barely got data off it), and now another MyBook 500 where the drive won’t spool up.  That’s 5, yes FIVE, separate pieces of shit that have gone tits up, and all are Western Digital.

DO NOT TRUST THESE DRIVES!

I used to despise IBM drives for the same reason, but this by far exceeds that level of craptacular failure rate.  All told it’s looking like 1.5Tb of dead drive space, with a measly 500Gb of salvageable drives pulled frm two of the enclosures.  I will be Ghosting those two over to some Seagate upgrades very soon, just to be sure.

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