Issue moving data to WD Red 3tb

Prophet

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I've just installed a WD Red 3tb into my Microserver. I want to move all of my movies to it from a NAS drive, however when I attempt a copy it stalls after a minute.

If I copy to another drive in the server it works fine sitting at 11MB/Sec as usual but when using the WD Red it only stays at 11MB/Sec for a minute then drops to 500Kb/sec and then freezes. Done a scan of the drive etc but it all looks good.

I'm running Server 2012 as the OS.

Any ideas?
 
Update. It happens if I copy internally from any other drive to the WD Red. Good data rate for a few seconds then drops to zero!
 
Possibly a faulty drive? I have two 3 TB Reds in an N36L Microserver running Windows Server 2012, no problem at all.
 
Can someone sanity check my diagnostics so far?

Server 2012 and Windows 7 64bit systems:

Partitioned it as MBR (2TB) then tried to format - Format never finishes, Server hangs format task is killed.

Removed partition and created GPT (3TB) and tried to format - Same result.

After both formats I rebooted the server/PC and could see the drive but when I try to copy any data it only manages around 1GB then hangs.

Is there anything I'm missing or is the drive ******?
 
I'd try a BIOS update and a different RAID controller if you have one available, but yes the disk sounds fudged.
I'd also be trying Linux too, but that's overkill if you don't have a Linux box available.

The SMART data from the disk may be interesting too.

From what I can see, the N40L (I'm presuming...) should support 3tb disks no issues without any updates, but always try the obvious first.

-Leezer-
 
It's the N54L so should handle it with ease.

I've tried it on my i5 Windows 7 system and Macbook Pro via a USB caddy.

None of them can complete a partition/format process :(
 
Prophet said:
It's the N54L so should handle it with ease.

I've tried it on my i5 Windows 7 system and Macbook Pro via a USB caddy.

None of them can complete a partition/format process :(
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I have two 3 TB Reds in my N36L and am super happy with them...
 
You seem to have made the best approach so far, I'd try a firmware update if one is available for this drive as that can generally resolve this issue. Does seem to be a faulty drive though, if that fails RMA it, my external HDD has just started doing the same thing so I know the feeling, sadly mine is 4 months out of its 3 year warranty.
 
devious93 said:
You seem to have made the best approach so far, I'd try a firmware update if one is available for this drive as that can generally resolve this issue. Does seem to be a faulty drive though, if that fails RMA it, my external HDD has just started doing the same thing so I know the feeling, sadly mine is 4 months out of its 3 year warranty.
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I tried the firmware as a last attempt but unfortunately it didn't resolve the issue.

Have you tried to RMA your drive? Sometimes the manufacturer will replace it if it's warranty has only recently expired.
 
Further update.

Sent the old drive back DOA and got a replacement drive. Installed that today, created a partition and formatted OK. Great :)

Nope. It turn itself off, so I rebooted and was greeted with the click of death and some other odd sounds. Two DOA drives delivered and 3 weeks wasted!

I don't care what people say about WD Red drives. In my experience they suck 100% of the time!
 
Its just down to bad luck. My 1TB Red has been in my server since march and has around 30 days uptime since then.

Theres a lot of people here running in HP Microservers and the like.
 
I agree it is bad luck. However if you look at the odds of getting two DOA drives back to back it's enough 'bad luck' to make sure I never buy another WD Red drive.
 
I had two 3tb reds. One developed a fault and would not initialise. Used the WD Advance RMA last week and got sent a recertified dirve. This works fine.

However, the recert is only showing 3 months warranty left whereas the one I sent in had just over 2 yrs left. Bit gutted about that tbh.
 
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