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thatdellguy

Post subject: Whats going on with WD5000KS and WD5000YS?

Posted: July 18th, 2008, 20:51

Joined: August 19th, 2007, 17:30
Posts: 1898
Location: In your hard drive.

Anyone else seeing a lot of these drives coming in?

WD5000KS
WD5000YS

They either have:

1. Firmware damage.
2. Dead heads.
3. Combination of 1 and 2.
4. Burnt pcb's.
5. Bad sectors.

There total garbage.

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helix66

Post subject: Re: Whats going on with WD5000KS and WD5000YS?

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 1:14

Joined: June 12th, 2008, 1:53
Posts: 8

I just sent in a WD 1Tb MyBook pro2 for data recovery to ontrack the other day, it has two of the ks series in it. I'm not in your biz, and actually came here thinking there was an easy fix and have since learned otherwise.

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jono-ats

Post subject: Re: Whats going on with WD5000KS and WD5000YS?

Posted: July 19th, 2008, 9:59

Joined: June 8th, 2006, 19:44
Posts: 3144
Location: Atlanta, GA

I'm seeing a few WD4000YRs with head problems.

Based upon what I'm seeing lately, I don't think anyone makes good large drives. Clients ask me, "what brand shall I buy." I tell them brand doesn't matter - just buy 2 of them . . .

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Jon

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craig6928

Post subject: Re: Whats going on with WD5000KS and WD5000YS?

Posted: July 20th, 2008, 1:26

Joined: February 15th, 2006, 3:38
Posts: 1079
Location: canada

helix66 wrote:

they more likely charge you a arm and a leg for your recovered data

im seeing a lot of failed larger drives now
this is more down to the drives getting hotter before and failing
more platters more heat.

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TerraNova

Post subject: Re: Whats going on with WD5000KS and WD5000YS?

Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 2:20

Joined: August 8th, 2007, 6:32
Posts: 1238
Location: inside ROM

I just got one WD5000YS, power on , no DRY no BSY......any idead what is wrong guys? UDMA does not support this drive yet. thanks

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beto

Post subject: Re: Whats going on with WD5000KS and WD5000YS?

Posted: July 23rd, 2008, 10:02

Joined: October 21st, 2005, 0:45
Posts: 1517
Location: Mexico

Hy terranova, could u heard the recalibration sound on that WD5000YS?, did u tried to access "x" sectors? or its knocking?

Regards

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