Disk selection, what would you do?

[Dew]

I am no expert, but could it be that the TLER utility does not work correctly on the WD10EACS? I mean TLER was an issue a while back, but I don't have information about the current gen drives. Have you tried reverting the drives?

In the end, maybe using that util broke them?

I somehow doubt using the util broke the drives two days later. I suspect it had something to do with a non-stop read-write load. As for reverting the drives, they won't even spin up when connected to my desktop anymore.

Manufacturing dates are 25 and 30 December, Thailand.

 

[DrRetina]

3 of my drives are 15 dec. made in Thailand and they are running flawlessly with TLER on since i got them about 3 weeks ago. You could have been very unlucky. What controller are you using btw?

 

[Dew]

3 of my drives are 15 dec. made in Thailand and they are running flawlessly with TLER on since i got them about 3 weeks ago. You could have been very unlucky. What controller are you using btw?

RR2320. No software changes, just swapped out the WD3200SD/JD drive set. I'll be upgrading the firmware on my RR2320 (was running 1.0, newest is 1.7) as well as doing a fresh OS install(FC5 x64 to Centos 5.1 x64, was going to eventually do this anyways) while I wait for the replacement drives.