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Western Digital Black

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Has anybody had a problem with WD Black 1TB hard drives lately. I built a system for a friend 6 years ago and last year his hard drive WD 1TB started going south so I told him to buy a new one from Newegg. He bought 2, 1 for backup. We reinstalled Windows 7 and within a couple months that hard died. WD Lifeguard confirmed it was gone so we reinstalled Windows 7 from scratch on the second drive and within 3 months it is giving signs that it is dying. I am thinking there was a bad batch. Is it possible for a motherboard or memory problem to kill a hard drive?

My friend ran WD Lifeguard overnight and it said there were too many bad sectors to continue, same as the last drive. That drive was installed in February.
 
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I did have one of my older WD black 1TB drives starting to give errors, and since I was running a raid 0 with 2 drives I decided to replace both with 2TB drives as I could use some more storage, those have so far been running flawlessly.

The 1TB drives were made in 2011 though so not the most recent.
 
Bought one in 2016 that is currently being RMA/d. It didn't ultimately fail, as I was able to backup the data and wipe the drive, however, when connected my system took 8 minutes or more to start. Nothing worse than having to send back a drive with data on it and having to cross your fingers nothing terrible happens. I've been buying WD drives for 20 years. This is the 2nd I've had to RMA. The last was a part of a Raid-0 array of Raptors the ones with clear windows prominently displayed in my case at the time. My replacement came but wasn't a match (no window) :( which was disappointing. I do hope this isn't a sign of the times, but I'm talking 20 plus drives or 10% failure rate compared to 50% with Seagate in the same period. I definitely won't be buying another Seagate although I have been tempted.
 
I had problems in the past with Seagate and Hitachi but never had to RMA a WD Black so that is why I recommended them to my friend.
 
I haven't bought a 1TB Black in a long time. I did buy one from Dell over 5 years ago and it failed in a few days, that was the only one that has actually died on me.
Dell tried to get me to RMA the drive with WD, but I told the rep that I want them to replace it since it was only a few days old. I didn't want to have pay to ship the drive to WD and wait for a replacement that probably would have been a refurb.

I also had a 1TB drive start making a grinding sound when reading and writing about 5 years ago. The WD rep said that was very abnormal and authorized an Advanced RMA.
A day or so later I get an email from WD telling me that they don't have any 1TB Blacks available and if I would take a 2TB Black instead. I was like, HELL YA I'LL TAKE A 2TB BLACK, since they were still over $200 at the time.
It''s still going strong,

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My newest WD Blacks are a pair of 4TB's, one is 3 years old and the other is 1.5 years.
The 3 year old one is starting to make the grinding sound so I am going to start an RMA on it soon.
 
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