Unfortunately, from day one defective ...

The hard drive arrived in a simple books envelope also with me. I've only taken it home in operation, the plate got divided into 3 partitions and installed Windows 7 Ultimate on it. The first time on an account in Windows much to me that the hard drive never comes to rest. Did I initially thought nothing of it and the Windows set. After copying a few large data and then moved. CRC error !? Bad ... After a few more attempts, it only got worse. Then I got the hard drive yet been tested in the work and for a subsequent test run of the WD hard drive check tools, it was well established: Too many bad sectors - newly allocate> Persistent memory.

Enormous data loss is the case, especially for large files.

HDD went back, now I have again resorted to Seagate, after having hopefully get their firmware problems under control. In addition, in my 6 year old Dell potter 2 Seagate was happily without a defective ...

A WD disk think even the same (Caviar Green 1TB), I have as an external solution (WD My Book Essential Edition 1TB). This is transported almost every day in the backpack, without a problem.

-> So it is a particular case seems to be!
// Edit: Then I'll give you 3 stars because it's an isolated incident ...

Property now the way resorted to a Samsung Spinpoint F1 - This runs more than a year still softly :)