Dead on arrival.

[Countcussy]

Just purchased a couple of 8tb WD Red Plus to upgrade my Synology Nas. They arrived today. Not from OC as they had no stock.
I switched from my 4tb Ironwolfs to WD Red Plus, as the Ironwolfs can get pretty noisy. Plus my WD drives have been good to me in the past.

Swapped out the first drive, and attempted to do the storage pool repair, DSM reported only one drive fitted, So something was not right.
Popped the new drive in a PC caddy and its completely dead. Does not even spin up. Windows recognises it, and asks if I want to initialise the drive. When I click OK, I get a Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check). So I am presuming it is properly goosed.
Installed the second drive instead, and all is good. DSM currently repairing the storage pool.

Both drives are from 29th March 25 batch, so its not as if its old stock, and bags were sealed etc.
Never had a HDD arrive dead on arrival before.

Pretty gutted.

 

[Philtor]

Would they be recertified perhaps? Or maybe just bad luck. Western Digital have always been rock solid for me.

Seagate on the other hand? I won’t go there

 

[Countcussy]

Would they be recertified perhaps? Or maybe just bad luck. Western Digital have always been rock solid for me.

Seagate on the other hand? I won’t go there

I really hope not. Purchased brand new from a well know online store. Hoping its just bad luck.
The fact that the store`s online returns form does not recognise the same address the drives were delivered to is a bit of a worry.

 

[Philtor]

Maybe a bad batch or something? Always bought Western Digital over anything else personally.

I wouldn’t let it put me off the brand.

 

[hominid]

You may have this issue.

The short summary is that some newer hard drives align to the SATA 3.2+ or SATA 3.3 spec, which means that the 3.3v power supplied by the 1st-3rd rails is used as a shutdown signal.

The problem is that older power supplies don’t know this, and will happily supply continuous 3.3v power the way they were designed to, no questions asked. This triggers the shutdown signal, and keeps the HDD locked in a powered off state. Super frustrating if you’re not aware of what’s going on.

So you may need to cover those pin with tape.

https://www.nickearl.net/2019/05/14/how-to-fix-3-3v-power-issues-with-hard-drives/

 

[ATIorNvidia]

You may have this issue.

The short summary is that some newer hard drives align to the SATA 3.2+ or SATA 3.3 spec, which means that the 3.3v power supplied by the 1st-3rd rails is used as a shutdown signal.

The problem is that older power supplies don’t know this, and will happily supply continuous 3.3v power the way they were designed to, no questions asked. This triggers the shutdown signal, and keeps the HDD locked in a powered off state. Super frustrating if you’re not aware of what’s going on.

So you may need to cover those pin with tape.

https://www.nickearl.net/2019/05/14/how-to-fix-3-3v-power-issues-with-hard-drives/

I think that only applies to the white label WD's that come out of external enclosures.

 

[Snapshot]

You may have this issue.

The short summary is that some newer hard drives align to the SATA 3.2+ or SATA 3.3 spec, which means that the 3.3v power supplied by the 1st-3rd rails is used as a shutdown signal.

The problem is that older power supplies don’t know this, and will happily supply continuous 3.3v power the way they were designed to, no questions asked. This triggers the shutdown signal, and keeps the HDD locked in a powered off state. Super frustrating if you’re not aware of what’s going on.

So you may need to cover those pin with tape.

https://www.nickearl.net/2019/05/14/how-to-fix-3-3v-power-issues-with-hard-drives/

As the OP received two identical drives of which one worked and one didn't, I don't think that's the problem. And, as @ATIorNvidia pointed out, it's a very restricted problem anyway.