Scannerman

Indubitably there are manifest reasons NOT to purchase WD mechanical hard drives. Windows 11 might be one of them.

You should refuse to purchase WD HDD's because they're always bundling some lame Windows driver that breaks Core Isolation, or is...

My two cents Despite advances in SMR most typical SMR drives on the domestic end user market tend not to last as long as CMR mechanical...

Oversimplified but I am trying to be concise. In conventional magnetic recording (CMR), there is a one-to-one sequential relationship...

The fact that I was on pain killers from a failed gall bladder operation when it happened has no bearing on this. I blame the hardware...

Personally, if Crystal Disk reports the drive as good and in the blue I wouldn't worry about it much. Sometimes SMART is just too smart...

How does Crystal Disk report the drive? I'm guessing it's in the "yellow" category.

lol I'm familiar with the well-earned "Death Star" label. Replaced many of them back in the day...

For who? A student, someone on a pension, a couple with two jobs, a person with a 6 figure salary? The cost of something is 100%...

I'm well acquainted with drive chatter and agree that this happens with some mechanical hard drives. In the case I refer to the drive...

Time to mark "solved" :-)

'Tis a fact. It's tough times around the globe for sure. Nonetheless a 1TB hard drive these days is relatively cheap. (Especially a...

I have an old Toshiba klunk-drive that I gave to one of the girls because it still functions. On startup it clicks like no tomorrow. On...

I don't care what S.M.A.R.T. shows, when a hard drive is making clicking sounds for no apparent reason, that's a red flag for me. I've...

Okay, I was typing my response before you entered your reply to glasskuter. It's a WD BLUE so likely an SMR drive. Again, I'd advise...