Onto my 3rd RMA (WD10EARS)

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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I’ve never had a problem with WD BEFORE i got a WD10EARS. then the pain and misery began, each time suffering from the same fault.

first one i got, hooked it up, did a 4k Format worked for a good 3 months, then the I/O errors began to rear their ugly head.

exactly the same with the second drive and now the third.

Test Option: QUICK TEST
Model Number: WDC WD10EARS-00Z5B1
Unit Serial Number: WD-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Firmware Number: 80.00A80
Capacity: 1000.20 GB
SMART Status: PASS
Test Result: FAIL
Test Error Code: 06-Quick Test on drive 2 did not complete! Status code = 07 (Failed read test element), Failure Checkpoint = 102 (Unknown Test) SMART self-test did not complete on drive 2!
Test Time: 23:32:10, July 21, 2012

Ran this 3 times to check wether or not it was lying to me but no, exactly the same thing.

The thing is my WD10EACS hasn’t had a problem, and its getting on abit.

I’ve tried it in different sata ports / different OS’s / Different PC and still the same.

Is there someone who can get me a NEW drive, as it seems the refurbished ones were fit for the scrap heap

2

Are you using any type of external enclosure or RAID case? Or you have it connected directly to the PC motherboard?

3

nope, nothing special going on here - thought it might have been a  faulty molex > sata converter issue, so connected it directly to its own sata rail and still the same thing.

Did a full zero on the drive, re-initialized, quick formatted and began copying some distros onto it.

It got through ~900mb of data then froze completely, i then cancelled that to find it had then disappeared from explorer.