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.
 
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
 
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