I have a brand new WD Green 1.5TB, been running only 4 hours and

[Yuriman]

Comedy title, serious thread.


I had a 500GB WD Green which started to get "slow" very recently, and would take forever and then some to read certain files (but would eventually be able to read them), so I ordered a 1.5TB WD Green. It came in yesterday, and after copying all of my files to it, I was picking through them and getting random hangs on this drive too...

So, here I am running HD Tune's error checker, less than 2% done and it's telling me I have 0.7% damage blocks.

I've never had a drive fail on me before; I've got 2 Hitachi drives, a Seagate, and a large stack of maxtors which have all been running for years (maybe 25 drives total). 13 years and no failures. Yet here I am with 2 out of 2 bad WD drives.


Thoughts?

 

[Colt45]

wonky cable or controller? Try the drive on a different machine..?

 

[Yuriman]

Na, it's the drives for certain.

 

[a123456]

Bathtub curve and then RMA? I assume you have other backups.

I've had failures with all brands so I can't really say. But it's not like DOA on hard drives is uncommon.

If you're looking to try a different brand, the Samsung green 1.5TB is the same price as the WD green 1.5TB, both at 90$.

 

[Zap]

I've also had failures with all brands.

Curiously the Samsung 1.5TB drives probably have the lowest percentage of 1/5 'Egg reviews (FWIW).

Don't forget 10% Bing cashback to make it $81 shipped.

 

[Yuriman]

I imagine drive failure rates are not something retailers and manufacturers share, but I'd be interested to see of the popular beliefs follow actual failure rates.

 

[nobb]

There's also alot of speculation that current high density drives are less reliable nowadays. Id also be interested in this.

 

[Machupo]

I've had an average failure rate of 20% on my 1tb WD Greens (waiting for the latest to come back from RMA right now)... def. glad RAID6 is around.