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 sending
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 that
AB> runs without problems?


AB> Thank you!

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