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My WD RED WD30EFRX experience
2 out of six WD30EFRX has failed- this is my third year with readynas ultra6 - and this disks are the first to fail on me. All other disks have not been on the HCL. This time I wanted to be smart and follow Netgears advices - that ended with thousands of pictures lost since I started replacing 2TB disks with these "magnificent" HCL
Guess what - I got a VERY pissed off wife here she has lost her private pictures - so have I, thank you very much Western Digital and Netgear
I am stuck with 4 of these chinaware shitty disks - can't be returned as long as they "live" WD don't accept returns before their customers has lost their data
Yes bad day for me today
Guess what - I got a VERY pissed off wife here she has lost her private pictures - so have I, thank you very much Western Digital and Netgear
I am stuck with 4 of these chinaware shitty disks - can't be returned as long as they "live" WD don't accept returns before their customers has lost their data
Yes bad day for me today
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- How badly have the disks failed? It is possible you may be able to recover some of your data by cloning the disks using dd_rescue. Contact tech support (see the Online Submission link in my sig) and see what they suggest.
You could have got disks from a bad batch. Anyway with higher capacity disks the chances of dual disk failures are higher. With 6x3TB disks I think it is very risky not to use dual-redundancy especially if storing irreplaceable data that has not been backed up. No important data should be entrusted to a single device.
I have 6 of the same drives in an Ultra 6 and none of them have failed. - Just wanted to add that I am running 5 WD30EFRX in my Pro, and 2 more in my RN102. So far I have had no problems at all.
- http://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?p=324970
lucky you - reds fail on stripe - I do think these drives are very bad remove them from the HCL - I got my WD 3TB RED disks from as many as three or four different batches. I bought them from three different resellers. I'm also using dual-redundancy so I have some protection against two disk failures.
Inevitably users that have issues tend to post much more than users who don't.
Personally I haven't had my WD RED disks for long enough to know if they were a good buy or not for me, but then you never know till it is time to replace them again. - I also bought mine over time, and I haven't seen any problems at all. BTW, WD's RMA policy seems about the same as Seagate's.
I agree with mdgm that it is early days, my oldest Red drive has ~8000 hours on it.
My main advice though is that you should have an independent backup of your data. - Trying again friends "Volume expansion or migration started. Do not interrupt the system during this time. When finished, email notification will be sent to the alert contact list.
[Sat Aug 10 23:58:32 CEST 2013]"
Thanks for keeping out with my frustrated period I have now - and sorry for my bitching - I believe I have ten red's (2 and 3TB) in various NAS systems and all have performed to my satisfaction. No failures yet though as MDGM and StephenB have mentioned the drives haven't been on the market that long.
- It's now returned - no chance on this drive - the nas rejects it. And I do fear I have another one failing too... it did render the volume dead whilst I was replacing another drive - This time it passed - so it might be just under the volume of dead sectors thats accepted by the nas
How many reallocated sectors / pending sectors are you seeing?NilsG wrote: It's now returned - no chance on this drive - the nas rejects it. And I do fear I have another one failing too... it did render the volume dead whilst I was replacing another drive - This time it passed - so it might be just under the volume of dead sectors thats accepted by the nas - If you haven't rewritten the disks, the data might be recoverable, even with read errors on some disks. If you can see the disks in a system, data can generally be reconstructed.
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