im scared to put so much data on a single drive. but then again i have never had a drive fail in my 15 years or so of computing

Me too. That's why I always buy drives in pairs and mirror them (with backup scripts, don't like RAID1).

The chkdsk /f (only 3 stage, not even the full 5 stage) finally finished after 2 and a half days running. Lots of indexing and orphaned files found. Those wouldn't be a big deal though, but sadly it found 76KB in bad sectors. And I'm guessing it would probably found more if I actually did the full chkdsk. Drive is definitely going bad.

Frustrating thing is almost half the hard drives I buy from NewEgg arrive bad or go bad within a few weeks. I don't have such bad luck from Fry's or Tiger Direct. I don't think it's just bad luck anymore. *sigh*

I can't thing of any logical reason why New Egg hard drives would be any more or less reliable than a drive from Fry's or Tiger Direct. Some people just seem to have bad "luck" with drives. I've always chocked it up to environmental issue or user habits.

 

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It could be about how it's warehouse and shipping departments handle the drives. It's shipping departments on multiple occasions has shipped many people drives with barely (and sometimes no) package material in the box. Though I've had appropriately packed drives go bad from them often too, so the problem could be occurring before shipping as well.

I have no idea what's going on. But after about 20 hard drives from NewEgg I've counted 9 that have gone bad within 2 months (7 of those were DOA). That's far too high. I've bought dozens of drives from Fry's and probably half a dozen from Tiger Direct and I really can't remember any of those being DOA or dying within the first 2 months.

I've bought 4 HD's from newegg. One of them has gone bad. My main HD, from newegg, is going on 6+ years and hasn't had any issues.

 

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WD is awesome. I just did an RMA and they are going to send me the replacement hard drive first right away and I have 30 days to mail them the defective drive. Woohoo. Seagate didn't give me this option.

So a replacement 3TB drive should be on it's way very soon.

On the opposite side of the spectrum...I don't recall any drive I've used in the last 15 years failing under "normal" conditions...and I've used new egg almost exclusively for the last decade (minus a short grudge I had with them for using UPS)

I actually blame UPS for almost all the issues I've had with defective equipment. Having known a number of people that work in the unloading facilities...it's amazing anything arrives intact.

 

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I would have to agree. I am scared to order OEM drives from Newegg. Retail drives comes in boxes that offer more protection, which is the only reason I ordered it from newegg. But I have been shipped an OEM drive packaged on the bottom of the box rather loosely (would rattle around the whole bottom of the box). Luckly that drive has not failed, but I have not ordered another OEM online since.

Other places I use to use look to of gone bust while back, which actually protected all the drives well. I wonder how amazon packages drives. At least there is a microcenter kinda nearby, so that is what I have done for my last 3 drives. Too bad they do not carry green/slow rpm 3tb drives yet.

 

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I personally don't buy drives with more then one platter, which as I understand it is the best way to get reliable drives.. Anyone else ever hear that?