WD20EARS just added on the official HCL - mistake and issues

MrCyberdude wrote:
There is a new version of the WD20EARS-00MVWB0 and its a 2TB with 3 x 666GB platters. viewtopic.php?f=24&t=43030

Another victim here. I just bought 4x WD20EARS drives after checking the compatibility list. And no, I didn't read the notes. It's on a hardware compatibility list.

Yep. Compatibility. And just in case I don't understand what compatibility means, Netgear helpfully explain at the top....

we take it upon ourselves to list ONLY drives that have passed our stringent disk qualification test.

So why is WD20EARS in the list at all? And why is it at the top? Only means only.

I'm not a readynas expert and none of my retailers list any more than WD20EARS in their product listing. It had the biggest cache number, it's at the very top of a HCL, got to be a good buy.

The note says:

Firmware 80.00A80, Model # WD20EARS-00S8B1, See Tech Bulletin http://www.readynas.com/?p=3690

Which is a non-warning. :slap: What it SHOULD say is:

ONLY Firmware 80.00A80, Model # WD20EARS-00S8B1 has been tested, caution should be exercised with all other models. See Tech Bulletin http://www.readynas.com/?p=3690

On better HCLs I've seen this type of info on a separate heading.

It could have been clearer and so I feel misled. Now I feel pretty stupid. I have 4x WD20EARS-00MVWB0 sitting here and I put them in one by one and they all come up as dead. :( And I don't have the time to go through endless workaround.