I bought a new WD20EARX-00PASB0.
I immediatly checked the SMART Values which were normal.
I ran badblocks (write mode) for about 10 hours which did not show any issues either and completed two full write/read passes.
Then I put the drive into production, writing about 1TB of data to it. While the read/write operations did not show any issues after checking the SMART values again it showed Current_Pending_Sector 1. This is after about 20 hours LifeTime
I started short offline tests which were immediatly failing showing the LBA of the first error.
After reading I figured out that reallocation only happens on writes, so I did a dd to issue write commands to the specific blocks which lead to Current_Pending_Sector chaning from 1 to 0. Interestingly the Reallocated_Sector_Ct stayed 0.
After starting a long test it went fine for 40% until it stopped again with a read failure at a different LBA. Also Multi_Zone_Error_Rate changed to 1.
I tried the above again and issued overwrite commands to the reported LBAs but this time without effect. Even though the write command completes successfully the next long test still failes at the same LBA.
I then did a dd to overwrite the whole drive with zeroes. This completed successfully, however the long test is still failing at the same LBA
Current values:
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 5
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 166 166 021 Pre-fail Always - 6658
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 203
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 56
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 24
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 18
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 418
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 125 121 000 Old_age Always - 25
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 1SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors LoggedSMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 60% 55 1536643520
2 Extended offline Completed: read failure 60% 45 1536643520
3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 43 -
4 Extended offline Completed: read failure 60% 43 1536643520
5 Short offline Aborted by host 60% 41 -
6 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 40 3802224584
7 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 22 3802224584
8 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 22 3802224584
9 Short offline Completed: read failure 90% 22 3802224584
Any further ideas to get this fixed? Any experience if WD will accept an RMA in that case?
Thanks in advance
