If the speed doesnt change try on another computer please and confirm that the drive itself is bad and not the sata port or cable… i would see the cable
Apparently there is a known “configuration issue” with the first batches of 6TB Red drives. From what I can tell, part of the issue is due to the drives having NCQ (Native Command Queuing) disabled.
WD was quoted in the linked article as working on a firmware update to fix this issue, so I guess now we just have to wait for this. Hopefully it’ll be sooner rather than later.
Is there any way to detect if I have the “bad” firmware? my WD60EFRX-68MYMN0 seems to work quite well out of the box, but now a bit concerned. HD Tune 2.55 says I have firmware 82.00A82 and in supported features it does show checkbox with NCQ enabled. Although it reports the drive size wrong (probably due to being 6 years old software).
That’s interesting deemon, my drive is also running firmware version 82.00A82. As my NAS is running Linux, I can’t use HD Tune, but every indication I have from the kernel/drive utilities available is that NCQ is “Supported” by the drive but just not in use.
Could you please post some benchmarks or let me know of what sort of transfer speeds you’ve been getting?
I’m not sure why, but I just realised I can’t see any of the attached images on this forum… But if you find the transfer speeds close to your expectations thats good to hear.
I’d love to hear from WD on this issue as it still seems to be affecting several users.
a bit out of topic, but same is true for me. I can’t see also pictures uploaded by other people. My own pictures I see. When I uploaded them, I specifically removed the flag from “private”, so they should be public. When I viewed my image gallery (where it stores all the pictures I have uploaded) both images were public, yes the newer one was “flagged for review”. Older one wasn’t. So I guess they do not automatically show all the new uploaded images but have some moderator to review them first. So if you still can not see either of my uploaded images still, then I guess the system is broken and regardless if moderator accepted the picture, it still does not show to anyone…
Yes, HD Tune 2.55 (only free version) does only test read speed.
Downloaded iometer and it was too confusing for me. I don’t even understand what I am suposed to do with it or what settings to enter. Also the results page you linked does not explain with what settings they tested, so any kind of comparison would be impossible.
PCMARK Basic version (the only free version) didnt provide any results either, as the HDD suite is not part of the free program.
a bit out of topic, but same is true for me. I can’t see also pictures uploaded by other people. My own pictures I see. When I uploaded them, I specifically removed the flag from “private”, so they should be public. When I viewed my image gallery (where it stores all the pictures I have uploaded) both images were public, yes the newer one was “flagged for review”. Older one wasn’t. So I guess they do not automatically show all the new uploaded images but have some moderator to review them first. So if you still can not see either of my uploaded images still, then I guess the system is broken and regardless if moderator accepted the picture, it still does not show to anyone…
Hi guys, all images are moderated before being approved. If the image contains the hard drive serial number, it will be rejected and requested to be uploaded again without the serial number.
EDIT: Wow is this embarassing, but I just realised my whole issue was due to a misconfiguration on my part. Full apologies to WD! The drive is now working perfectly.
EDIT: Wow is this embarassing, but I just realised my whole issue was due to a misconfiguration on my part. Full apologies to WD! The drive is now working perfectly.
I have a 4TB drive and the upload speeds to are very slow, how did you resolve your problem and reconfigure the settings? I can not seem to see how this was achieved in the posts?