Same thing here. I bought the WD5000AAKS drive on sale (that should have been a red flag) and it worked awesome for about 30 days and then FAILED! Luckily I have several back up drives and lost no data but I am out a few bucks for a dud drive. Even if this started working tomorrow I wouldn’t trust it. I suggest you drill a hole through it and throw it in the garbage. Love, Older + Wiser.
Friday, i.e. day before yesterday, I purchased 2 of these WD5000AAKS to have on my Gigabyte mobo GS965P-DS4 v.2.0.
I choosed them it for the brilliant fine reviews of a quiet, cool drive that was lontime reliable.
I am sure that warranty program will help the above friends that has troubles with it. All drives cannot be perfect, theres always a return factor, even if its way below consumer products when it comes to harddrives having >1000000 hour MTBF (meantime before failure) factors.
Just remeber to claim updated warranty time from purchase date, otherwisw WD will count it from manufacturing date. You just have to send/scan in your proof of purchase.
I am however a bit worried if this drive will work in a RAID0 on an Intel controller, by Intek software. It was no fuzz installing it, and now I have this 1Tbyte pair filled up to half with film material, images and songs. I got a 400mbyte buffered speed on it, and I am really satisfied so far.
I am waiting for a respond on a question sent in today. I will let youall know.