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WD Red WD40EFRX Failing

I have 4 of the above hard drives which are about 12 weeks old and when I run the LifeGguard Diagnostics they all return ‘too many bad sectors’ can they all be faulty?

Hi there,

This is when you try a quick test or a full test on the devices? try to run the test using different cables or computer to see if the same thin happens it is highly unlikely 4 drives fail at the same time.

Hve done that and only one device failing awaiting replacement from WD

Bought a Synology 216play with two RED 3TB. One of the disk refused to come alive no matter what. Spinned up but died. Got a new on RMA. That disk crashed at formatting.
Searching on the web, these RED disk seems to be big time-thieves, many posts of broken sectors as in my case.

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