ΠΡΠ·ΡΠ²Ρ ΠΎ ΠΠ΅ΡΡΠΊΠΈΠΉ Π΄ΠΈΡΠΊ Western Digital WD Red 8 Π’Π WD80EFAX
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Story short, It just so happens that the same drive that was out of box was DOA! In BIOS it shows both drives as well as my SSD, when I went to set up RAID it couldn't initialize the drive in question, WD Lifeguard tool SMART Status as "Not Available" and a quick test froze the software for 15 minutes before giving an error "Error: too many bad sectors"
welp wish me luck on an RMA or Refund I guess. I love Western digital products, never in my life had one of their products fail on me. I don't blame Western Digital, I blame whoever packaged this at amazon.
I urge everyone to do yourself a favor and don't buy HDDs off amazon
***UPDATE*** 6/19
WD had pulled through, RMA process was painless and received a new drive within a few weeks. This is why I stick with WD, they're reliable and offer seamless customer support!
I'm leaving this at one star not because of the product, but Amazon's garbage packaging. Again if at all possible buy this in store or go to Newegg, atleast they understand how to package computer parts.


However, beware of the sellers on Amazon: I didn't check on my last purchase (of 2 WD 6TB - NEW) and received 2 drives weirdly packaged. I installed them and both show "Power On time" of more than 35000 hours. More than 4 years of usage and sold as NEW.
Advice: Check recent feedbacks on the sellers before ordering. Check Manufactured date before installing, check "Power on Time" on the drive after install, before using.

the 2nd photo is how I have always received the drives in prior orders. Separate boxes, supported and cushioned.
NOT IMPRESSED


Other people have commented on warranty issues. While I have never had a problem with these drives, I did look up the warranty status on WD's website recently. They correctly reported that the warranty had just expired after my three years of ownership.
In 2016, I paid about $150 for the 4TB model. I considered that a decent price. Earlier this year, I started looking for a new 4TB drive. At that time, this drive was about $115. I spent a week or two looking at refurb enterprise ;evel 4TB models. They go for about $80, and the quality and warranty are really hit or miss. Now, this drive in the 4TB size is down to $100. At that price, for exactly the same drive that I know and trust, it is hard to consider any other option than another WD Red 4TB.
Make sure you purchase your drive from Amazon and not an Amazon market place seller. Check your warranty status as soon as you receive your drive and return it if WD does not recognize the full three years you are entitled to.
If you compare price to size in the WD Red line, you will see that the 4TB size is by far the most economical. I am going to buy a second drive for general use. If the current pricing holds, I am going to buy six more of these to replace all of the drives in my ZFS system over the next year.


I RMA'd both. One cleared fine and has been running error free for the past month. The second was DOA. It made a chirping sound every second or so and would not mount.
I contacted WD and they issued another RMA and sent me a refurbished drive. This has the exact chirping sound as if it's trying to spin up but something is rubbing. After a bunch of power cycles I got it to spin up and to be recognized, but it threw out thousands of reallocated sectors and froze when I tried to preclear.
I wanted to rule out the possibility that the issue was the enclosure or cable. I swapped enclosures, cables, tried to mount it on different computers/os'. No luck, completely dead.
So that's where I am at. I will try to RMA it again, but I don't think I can trust the 8TB WD red drives in my server. Very disappointing.
On a side note I have read some article saying that these drives are actually 7200 rpm drives that they label as 5400, which negates the power efficiency of these drive.

These drives have been on for 124 hours now and running well with a 33 degree C temperature. The server sits next to me and runs fairly quiet. These drives aren't any louder than the 4TB drives they replaced. In fact those 4TB drives are up to 19000 power on hours and about 5 years service. They never showed signs of trouble but they storage pool was getting too small for my collection of movies, videos, music, and documents.
So currently I'm using the old drives for a non redundant offsite backup. I loaded the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on my server and I am using rsync to copy changes between my mirrored pool and the offsite drives.
Anyway - I really like the WD red drives. Just be sure that if you get sizes less than 6TB for your NAS or storage space you want the Plus or the Pro series to make sure you get Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) versus the shingled magnetic recording (SMR) technology. SMR was invented to pack more bits into a drive but it doesn't play well with NAS systems. Drives of 8TB to 14TB are all CMR so no worries on the higher capacity drives.


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