WD 1600YS Raid Ed. Failed again. ANNOYED.!!

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Ok well i got two of these for my pc to use in RAID 0 Christmas before last within 3 months both had failed within days of each other so i had to RMA them.
The RMA took just over 8 weeks for my new disks to arrive :(

Installed back into pc thinking great lets get gaming again as 8 weeks without my gaming rig was killing me :cool: low and behold a few months later they both die again :o within a week of eachother.
RMA'd this pair :( again the RMA took about 8 weeks as they had a month backlog (not good i thought).

Now I get the new drives and think "Surely these ones must last.??"..!

Well they havent :( one started dropping out of the raid array so i went onto the WD site and found there was a firmware update which i applied to the affected drive.. Again thought to myself "cool shouldnt need to rma it.." ..

Well to top it off one is now failing with bad sectors :( ive ran the WD diags in dos mode and the drive is failing good and proper..

What can i say.. Ideally i want my money back so i can buy from another manufacturer because im soo dissapointed with WD now..

I really cannot be arsed with waiting another 8 weeks without my pc just for ANOTHER pair of disks which i hate to say it.. but will probably fail again :(

Sorry to sound so negative but i really had to get this of my chest.
 
Blimey, you should sue for them wasting so much of your time lol! Why not just buy some other hard drives, and use the WD ones as "storage" in RAID 1 till you can deffo confirm they aint gonna break?
 
Having so many disks fail would suggest that it's not the disks themselves (not unless WD's QA has went out the window). What motherboard have you got?
 
Not the disks.

Gigabyte DS3 rev 2, I know its not the board as ive tried them on my missuses pc which is exactly the same spec as mine (i built both at the same time).

I've tried with them on the INTEL controller so as not to be on the JMICRON raid controller too and i get the same results, ive tried them individually again same result and ive also tried different sata cables and recently upgraded my PSU incase that was suffering from vdroop :( .

After my last rma i reset the motherboard bios back to defaults so as to eliminate the overclock as the potential issue.

Cannot think of anything else to try really
 
Yes, PSU if anything.

But 8 weeks for an RMA?! Definitely not going to get a WD drive, with Samsung you get a brand new drive back 2-3 working days after you send yours off.
 
You're obviously just not having any luck with the WDs... if possible, I'd buy a different make of drive, then send the WDs back and sell them on as soon as you get the replacements.
 
AbsenceJam said:
Yes, PSU if anything.

But 8 weeks for an RMA?! Definitely not going to get a WD drive, with Samsung you get a brand new drive back 2-3 working days after you send yours off.
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Over the years, have had a few WD RMA's - a week at most and you are able to track online... can't imagine how it took 8 weeks...

I can't imagine you'd have that much bad luck with the drives. I am with Jokester that it is something else, even if I disagree on the motherboard.
 
I had 5 of these in my machine for just under 2 years on the intel controller. They all worked fine apart from the odd raid 0 drop out which the firmware fix is for. Sold them recently after testing them and all were fine. When you say you tried them in the second PC was this from new or after running in the first PC for a while?
 
i'd look at the PSU after that many fails

the drives don't get hot in your case do they? (like really hot)
 
Got the same board but revision one.

Had problems with harddrives dissappearing etc

Now lost one raptor with non raid disk error.

Pretty sure mine is the motherboard not hard drives.

Hard drive tests are okay. too many intermittent h/d faults over short times.

Mobo is flaky all the time with slow file transfers etc
 
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