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6 - 8tb drives just stop working?

obviouslytom

obviouslytom

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I have 8 8tb drives at home and currently only 2 of them will actively spin up. I can place all of them into a NAS unit and it will see that all are there, but tell me that only 2 work. If I take them out and put them into a drive cradle on my PC, I get the same issue that the system sees it, but doesn't spin it up. You can put your hand on it and feel zero activity. These are WD Red NAS drives. Has anyone ever ran into an issue with 6 drives just up and stop working like this?
 
Did you buy them all from the same place at the same time?

Could be all from the same batch and thus had a defect.

Are they still under warranty?
Are they seen in the BIOS?
 
MrGuvernment said:
Did you buy them all from the same place at the same time?

Could be all from the same batch and thus had a defect.

Are they still under warranty?
Are they seen in the BIOS?
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I got 4 of them at the same time and as far as I know, they are not under warranty anymore but I will check when I get home. As for the bios, they can be seen
 
If they were all working and then 6 out of the 8 just stopped then I'd say you had a power surge or some other undesirable event.
Were these part of a RAID or JBOD? When's the last time you checked/used them?
Were these bare drives when you bought them or "shucked" from an enclosure? - (less likely cause of an issue).
 
Grimham said:
If they were all working and then 6 out of the 8 just stopped then I'd say you had a power surge or some other undesirable event.
Were these part of a RAID or JBOD? When's the last time you checked/used them?
Were these bare drives when you bought them or "shucked" from an enclosure? - (less likely cause of an issue).
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They were part of a RAID and the NAS unit died. Last time I checked them was about a year ago and I have never really ran into a problem of a drive sitting for an extended period of time. As for when I bought them, they were all new
 
How important is the data on these? Are you trying to get them to work to store other stuff, or to try to get back your data?

If it's not important, maybe the drive motor/shaft is sticky... I've had some luck with an old drive that wouldn't spin up by holding the drive and rotating it 90 degrees or so quickly when it's first powered on. Once it's moving a smidge, the motor does the rest. But that might not be great for the drive's health.

I think grimham is wondering about the sata power 3.3v/Sata power disable pin, but my experience is power disabled drives don't show in bios at all, so I'd guess it's not that.
 
There is nothing on the drives currently. My work gave me an 8 bay Synology NAS unit that I was going to use the drives in. That NAS came with 8 2tb SSD's in it, but I wanted a lot more storage space.
 
obviouslytom said:
There is nothing on the drives currently.
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That's a good place to be. After checking warranty, I would try twisting the drive or other mechanical things during power up a couple times. If it works, great, but let the drives spin for a day or so after they start, then let them spin down for 30 minutes and see if they come back up or are stuck again. Then try with a day of power off, and probably a week of power off too. Kind of time consuming, but better to test and maybe fail now instead of later when you've got stuff on them.
 
I concur with some above, this is likely power related.

I would check and double check all the power cabling to the drives.
 
obviouslytom said:
They were part of a RAID and the NAS unit died. Last time I checked them was about a year ago and I have never really ran into a problem of a drive sitting for an extended period of time. As for when I bought them, they were all new
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Well, from what you said, it seems you were super unlucky for them to die in bulk or the NAS dying took the drives with it. You said they wouldn't even spin up in a HDD cradle.
 
Grimham said:
Well, from what you said, it seems you were super unlucky for them to die in bulk or the NAS dying took the drives with it. You said they wouldn't even spin up in a HDD cradle.
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Ah yeah. I missed that he already tried them in an alternate system and they still didn't spin up.

obviouslytom

Because I am curious, what type and vintage of WD Red drives are they? Regular WD Red, or WD Red Pro? And what manufacture year?

I can't help but wonder if the drives are of the vintage where WD moved their Red drives to SMR tech.... That seems to have greatly impacted reliability. 😥

Drives are replaceable (though I would replace them sooner rather than later, because prices are rising) but data can be precious and irreplaceable.

I hope you had other copies of any uimportant data on those drives, because I somehow doubt that with 6 out of 8 dead, there is any surviving data.😥

I mean, a hard drive recovery specialist may be able to coax them back to life long enough to pull data off of them, but their services can be quite expensive.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
Ah yeah. I missed that he already tried them in an alternate system and they still didn't spin up.

obviouslytom

Because I am curious, what type and vintage of WD Red drives are they? Regular WD Red, or WD Red Pro? And what manufacture year?

I can't help but wonder if the drives are of the vintage where WD moved their Red drives to SMR tech.... That seems to have greatly impacted reliability. 😥

Drives are replaceable (though I would replace them sooner rather than later, because prices are rising) but data can be precious and irreplaceable.

I hope you had other copies of any uimportant data on those drives, because I somehow doubt that with 6 out of 8 dead, there is any surviving data.😥

I mean, a hard drive recovery specialist may be able to coax them back to life long enough to pull data off of them, but their services can be quite expensive.
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Here is a pic of one of them. They are Red regular

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