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From: joystick <joystick@shiftmail.org>
Subject: Re: Western Digital Green 3TB SATA3 experiences
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:23:32 +0100
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The problem is the shop, or the transport, almost certainly not the=20
model of drives...


On 03/20/13 13:40, Rainer F=FCgenstein wrote:
> andris,
>
> yes, I had such a situation before. IIRC 4 out of 6 3TB WD caviar
> green drives were broken (3 more or less DoA, 1 failed after about 2
> months). sent those 4 back via RMA, the replacement drives work
> without problems (knocking on wood).
>
> looks like they had a (big) bad batch manufactured and are now sendin=
g
> out proper ones as RMA replacements.
>
> nevertheless, next time I'll use WD RED drives, as recommended here
> frequently.
>
> cu
>
>
> AB> Hello,
>
> AB> I am running RAID5 array on 6x 3TB WD SATA disks.
> AB> I have problems with all of these disks (including replaced one).
> AB> Disks are being randomly kicked out from array and SMART shows
> AB> pending sectors which usually can be fixed by read-write or write=
 to that sector.
>
> AB> Has anyone experienced something similar with WD green series?
> AB> Is this because of WD "green" series?
>
> AB> Anyone running raid on 3TB SATA drives can suggest model disk tha=
t
> AB> runs without problems?
>
>
> AB> Thank you!
>
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