WD60EZRZ Is this a problem?

WD Internal Drives Desktop & Mobile Drives
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For archival purposes I’ve been switching from 4TB Green drives to the 6TB Green drives which I guess were renamed to Blue WD60EZRZ drives. I’ve bough four WD60EZRZ drives and it’s my regular practice to partition, do a quick format and then use the Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics to do a long test on the drive just to make sure there are no problems.

In the case of the first three the long test took about 8 hours give or take a few minutes but this latest drive took a few minutes over 12 hours, the test came back clean with no errors. I use a StarTech Trayless Hot Swap Mobile Rack in the three computers where I use these drives but I always do the long test in the same computer so I really have to wonder why the long test took 4 hours longer on this drive than the other 3 drives and if that signifies any potential problems. Should I be concerned about this?

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Hello, if the extended test reported back that it had no issues the drive should be fine, it could’ve taken a few more hours if the processor was also doing something else of if the the software had to fix anything.