Wow thats rough I just lost my 10TB barracuda pro last week as well
And some of you guys told me not to get WD RED drives from Prime day.
Mine are still working, so there’s that.
Funny you should mention BackBlaze.
They post annual reports on how many drives they have failed in a year.
Seagate was always on the top in % by a large margin. WD HGST which is now WD Toshiba
Seagate is the most TB per $ but meh…
What else but Seagate?
Thats like near statistically impossible. They had to of been failing for some time. IMO
I did a case swap back at the end of 2022, but that’s about it. I upgraded to the Fractal Meshify 2 XL, which can hold up to 20 drives, and I had about 8 in there, made sure to give good space. Plus, it’s in my basement, and according to HD Sentinel, my drives range anywhere from 27c - 32c.
Prior to the failures, no physical shifts/movement on the case or the drives.
Are you hooked up to UPS power?
had to have* been
Have you actually checked if the drives are really dead and it’s not the SATA controller itself or other factors?
Drives do physically turn on, but all 3 are making really awful clicking and grinding noises that sound like failures. Pretty much on par to this video.
I’d be interested to see the disk stats, since the DOM on 1 of them is 2019, and the other 2 are mid-2020, but user states they only ran for 2 years?
I had that happen once with my dads computer.
It was a bad PSU.
I have had twice WD HDD’s (black ones though), and both times they just died for no particular reason.
Where did you buy them by the way? I wonder if from newegg since they have a suspicious low price there.
I had three 14tb drives fail within two weeks of each other. Two of them made horrible clicks and failed their SMART checks. The other I had to unplug to get my computer to boot.
I assumed it was my raid/passthrough card or cables doing something weird (eBay so you never know) but after reading some of the anecdotes here, I’m not so sure.
To make things even better - I submitted that RMA in August and I’m still waiting on the replacements because “the warehouse is backordered.”
Isn’t it a bit pointless to blank out the serial numbers of the drives, but not blank out the barcode for the serial numbers of the drives?
I had two 20tb shit out on me in less than two months over the summer.
I recently lost an 18tb drive. My younger 6x18tb RAIDZ2 array has been losing drives faster than my 9x8tb RAIDZ2 array. In the past I lost two 18tb drives at once.
First, sorry for your loss. Regardless of the case, if they are really not working it is still a possible big data loss and hit on the pocket.
It is weird to happen at the same time. Have you checked them on another machine? Other SATA/SAS controller? If it is, for example, a power issue problem it may happen to other drivers soon too.
Maybe they have been powerfully hit by something?
Just trying to help with finding the culprit, since it is so unlikely that 3 have died in such a similar time frame.
