Western Digital Mightmare

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elec999

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I have purchased two Western Digital 500gb YS Re2 drives to use in raid1 inside a Thecus enclosure. These drives have been a horrible nightmare for me. After a few hours of usage the Thecus reports one drive failed. These drives do get really hot. I placed a 120mm fan to cool. Tried to recreate the raid and still fails. I then went and connected each drive to my regular ich9r controller and checked their smart status and everything seems fine. I created a raid on my ich9r and the drives work fine, I installed windows. And when I start to place some bigger ghost images on them, they start to make the clicking noise like when a drive fails. I reboot the system, and the drives seem perfect once again. I contacted western they still havent replied. Tested the thecus with 250gb hard drive in raid1 and is going strong.
Thanks
 
Sorry to hear that. Just ordered three Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB myself. Hope to have no problems when using in raid0.
 
You should be fine. I got my 3 wd6400aaks over a week ago and I have been running them in raid 5. These things are fast. Got my 4th over nighted and here later today. Enjoy them!
 
Yeah the 5000YS is a rather hot drive. I noticed that too in my fileserver:

Code: 
<compname>:/home/<username># hddtemp /dev/sd[abcdef]
/dev/sda: ST3160023A: 48°C
/dev/sdb: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB0: 49°C
/dev/sdc: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB0: 49°C
/dev/sdd: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB0: 51°C
/dev/sde: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB0: 53°C
/dev/sdf: ST3160023A: 52°C

but not that much hotter tahn some old seagates
 
drizzt81 said:
Yeah the 5000YS is a rather hot drive. I noticed that too in my fileserver:

Code: 
<compname>:/home/<username># hddtemp /dev/sd[abcdef]
/dev/sda: ST3160023A: 48°C
/dev/sdb: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB0: 49°C
/dev/sdc: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB0: 49°C
/dev/sdd: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB0: 51°C
/dev/sde: WDC WD5000YS-01MPB0: 53°C
/dev/sdf: ST3160023A: 52°C

but not that much hotter tahn some old seagates
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I cannot understand why they run so fast. Is this good for its life, or needs cooling.
I found out that Western released a firmware fix for YS raid issues. Lets hope everything is good now.
Thanks
 
I did the firmware update and still the drive are dropping the array. I am disappointed with Western, they didnt even read my problem, they used standard answers. My drives aren't even ide and send me a bunch of links about ide troubleshooting.
Thanks
 
I have a Thecus N5200 as well. What's the firmware version on yours? You may want to try an update to 2.00.04 if it's not up to date already. For reference, I'm running 5 x WD5000AAKS in my Thecus unit and everything has been great. One drive shows a S.M.A.R.T. warning with 7 pending sectors, but it doesn't seem to be anything (however, I may get a new drive soon just in case it dies).

Edit: I just realized that you may not have the same Thecus unit as me, since you mentioned 2 drives, not 5.
 
well have 8 of the WD4000YS hdds i've never had any heat issues... or raid issues (note i havent updated the firmware, i will when i re-do my raid config in a few months... (turning it purely 64 bit gpt or something, so windows xp32 wont be able to read it anymore as i have little or no use for 32bit anymore)
 
My drives were made in 2006, they pass every possible smart test. Only problem they drop the array/act weird on any raid controller. Ive tested them with two other controllers.
Thanks
 
I have 6 of the YS drives and they run about 32-33 degrees ripping a lot of music they get up to 36 but that is the highest i have seen the temps in a Centruian and a P-182 Cases
 
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