I had to RMA a WD Green 2TB drive a few months back due to SMART Read Error Rate being through the roof…the replacement drive I got worked fine up until a few days ago. Here is what SMART tells me on the drive…
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 - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 248 146 021 Pre-fail Always - 4575
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 38
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 096 096 000 Old_age Always - 3481
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 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 - 37
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 9
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 44
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 120 090 000 Old_age Always - 32
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 2
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 2
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 - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 3410 976620280
I tried to run an offline test but it stalled at 90% remaining for 2 days…figured I may as well RMA the drive - turns out the warranty on the replacement drive just literally expired (May 14th to be specific…just havent had time to get around to it). So am I just basicly screwed? I don’t mind using re-cert drives as long as they don’t do this…which is take a **bleep** only days after the RMA period ends. Is there any way to have the warranty extended to cover this incident? Thanks for any replies…not sure who to contact about this 
