Customer Reviews

Western Digital 40GB 7200RPM 2MB CACHE IDE Bulk/OEM Hard Drive WD400BB

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(6)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

As a computer technician this is the MOST REPLACED DRIVE. The seller isn't the problem here, it's the hard drive itself.

The drive will work for some time, usually between 1 to 3 years. However, after that period there is a failure that occurs in the IDE controller circuitry for the drive causing a massive failure.

Symptoms are occasional unexpected and often sudden mis-mapping of the drive within the BIOS settings leading to an unrecognized drive or missing drive, file size reporting errors, random instability of the drive's operation on various OS's, and files that aren't readable while in operation.

Once the drive completely fails all files are usually lost.

Users should carefully look into newer drives by Western Digital and choose a drive compatible to your OS. In addition, those who have the WD400BB should consider moving important files to another drive and exchange this drive for another. Pricing is comparable and it will do you much better.

In most instances the seller's are not at fault. This appears to be an issue with one or more products produced by Western Digital Inc, recently discovered. This issue has come to my attention in the past year after several warranties expired and customers saw problems. At present it's the most replaced hard drive in my operation.

This drive kept me happy for four years. Yesterday, while the computer wasn't being used, I came home to find the blue screen of death; corrupt partition table. Attempted to repair it, only to reboot to the ominous "click click click" referenced at several places that offer to retrieve your data for $850 or so. I'm happy I make backups. (The drive can not be repaired - it's toast. Only physical repair will allow retrieval of the data.)

Four years may seem like a long time, but catastrophic failures like this seem common with these drives at around this age point, and they make saving a few bucks on the front end less than worthwhile.

This is the second Western Digital drive I've had fail on me. (The first one came installed in an IBM laptop.) Maybe I keep my computers too long. Maybe I should have drawn a conclusion from the first one. I've certainly drawn it now.

This was a great replacement drive on a netbook hat made it amazingly fast, comparatively speaking. Notebook drive, at least the lower end ones are so slow!

This Western Digital HD fulfilled my need for a new HD for an old computer. It was easy to use and also easy to clone the old HD to this new one. I give it 5 stars.

My order was filled very quickly, arriving promptly at my doorstep. Unfortunately the listing for this device on Amazon was misleading. My search for a new hard drive for my laptop yielded this product, a hard drive for a desktop computer, which when it arrived looked just fine and in great condition. My return request, when processed through Amazon, was likewise handled in a prompt and professional manner.

Purchased item and received in good time, however the hard drive was junk- doesn't power up, tested and turns out to be bad. attempted contact with covenant multiple times without resolve. very unhappy.

The most profound thing I believe is that someone paid for a 40 GB hard drive, OEM at that (meaning no wires are included.) This is a drive made for the turn of the century not 2009. iPod's costing less have more storage this is wrong.

Your money is better spent on other drives with better performance and size.

The most profound thing I can say is that the drive is installed and working.

I bought this hard drive for one of my old computer which i wanted to use as file and printer server so i wanted it on 24 hours. I am using this hard drive without any issues as yet and it seems very reliable and i got it in a very clean , new like condition.

I recommend this seller based on my purchase of teh Western Digital 40GB hard drive. The order went smoothly and arrived on time and in great condition. The item arrived air-sealed and in excellent packaging design. The item is still being used and after 2 months appears to be error-free. Once again, the seller did a great job on this order.