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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.
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.
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