Question BEWARE! WD NAS drives only good for 3 years of PoH! (According to WDDA service - DISABLE on NAS if possible.)

[VirtualLarry]

ignoring the industry analytics

BackBlaze uses shucked external drives.

They (AFAIK) don't pay for enterprise drive lines, of which "NAS" drives are supposed to share a lineage.

Consumer-facing drives, 3 years, fine.

But it's NOT just a voluntary warning, it interferes with hot spares and rebuilds. Didn't you watch the videos?

And this is FAR from the first anti-consumer thing that WD has done. That's OK, I switched to Exos drives years ago. Probably bought my last WD drive. Unless you think that using SMR drives branded as "NAS" is somehow acceptable behavior.

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

I guess we're just going to head in the sand about the official reply from Synology.

• WDDA not enabled by default, user must manually enable it
• Explicit ignore/suppress setting for this warning

How this is anything more than a voluntary warning the user can choose to ignore and suppress is a mystery to me.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Can someone please educate me, I’m not a video watcher.
While I do not have NAS, I could easily see myself getting one.

 

[Shonky]

Am i done for my drives have like 2630 Days on them

 

[coercitiv]

Edit: a 3 year power on hour cycle for drive replacement in critical installations is supported by industry data.

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I'm having a hard time reconciling the data in that graph with the 5 year warranty that WD offers for their WD Red Pro drives.