WD Mediamax 2000GB WL2000GSA6454G 3.5-Inch 9.98 cm S-ATA HDD 64 MB Cache 2TB Internal Hard Disk Western Digital 2000 GB

I stupidly bought a 2TB white-label WL2000GSA3272 Mediamax 3.5 inch hard drive for $110. The price per byte was good, but the hard drive was the worst driver I ever bought. I generally purchase approx $200 to $400 in hard drives per year (for last 10 years). This was the largest single drive I bought. As soon as I emptied 5 other drives onto it (1.3 TB), the drive died. I heard that Western Digital made this drive for a generic OEM, but the WD Data Life Tool software said it is not a Western Digital drive and would not work! I tried Seagate, Maxtor, and 5 other hard drive software utilities to try to bring it back to life. Nobody's SW would work on it. I think it's because they changed the model from a WD2000... to a WL2000GSA when they made it. This keeps ALL hard drive SW from recognizing it and performing any repair operations on it. I found one SW that will scan for bad sectors, but it's been running for 4 days and has 13 days left! NEVER BUT THIS CHEAP NO-NAME DRIVE! If you look for support, you will not find it (not even on the MediaMax website!). I just lost several years of data that I spent days of my life to acquire, format, organize, etc. I'm trying to recover the data from my original 5 drives, but I cut the files instead of copying them.. Oh well... In future, all 2TB+ drives will have to be cloned in RAID.