Western Digital RED failure rate and poor quality re-certified replacements

[cyber69]

I've got a 2 month old 4TB WD red drive with bad sectors which it's in a Synology NAS. It's got 10 bad sectors; is this just the beginning? Should I be thinking of starting a RMA or so I need to wait for it to be a lot higher?

Don’t know how you got one with Amazon but I guess they won’t take it back and you will have to raise an RMA with WD. When you get the recertified replacement just make sure to test it using WD diags extended test before committing it to the raid.

 

[Blackjack Davy]

Not a red but a blue and mine has died after barely 3 years. Previous WD greens lasted a damn sight longer but they're not available anymore. Seriously a regular desktop drive expiring after such a short period of time? It wasn't even the boot drive just a secondary for storage etc. I wonder if the QA for HDD's has declined recently now that they're playing second fiddle to SSD's.

 

[HungryHippos]

^ With bad sector errors you might find when replacing a totally failed disk that the volume fails to rebuild because it cannot read data from the bad sector on another disk. In that case try moving data off the volume and restore from backup the corrupted files.

A while back I actually pulled and rebuilt onto it, worked OK, and the bad sector count has remained static at 1 for the last 2-3 years.

I've swapped my disks out for new 10TB Reds anyway - the old ones have gone to good homes complete with SMART checks so the buyers are aware of the disks that list bad sectors.

To swap them out I copied stuff around temporarily, then just pulled them all and put 2 new ones in, built it up from there.