I’ve had an RMA HDD return in since late January 2023 and ‘still’ hearing the large scale RMA issue they have can’t even have an estimate of when the replacement drive will get to me.
I’m in the same situation. I have a fairly pricey enterprise RMA open for two 22 TB Gold drives. It’s been one month now, and WD still cannot even tell me if they received the drives, let alone when I might be sent replacements.
I opened a support ticket to try and get an answer, and this is the response WD gave me (7 days ago):
Please be informed that Western Digital is currently facing an outage due to which you are unable to check the status of your warranty replacement and shipment. We cannot provide you any time line for the outage to be cleared.
Considering WD likely has a backlog of RMAs to work through whenever they get the system back online (presumably it’ll be the last thing they restore), I fully expect it to take at least another month at this rate.
We appreciate your patience and are pleased to share that the system issues impacting your previous registration or warranty replacement request have been addressed and resolved.
Due to the increased volume of RMAs from our system issues, there may be slight delays with processing your RMA once received.
i signed up just to say same thing. tried all weekend to do advanced RMA. and the system is obviously down, statcode320 error
then to make things worse, every time you try and get that error, then trying again says statcode320 RMA in progress… and you got to wait an hour before trying again.
couldn’t get my rma submitted. very disappointing since waited 6 weeks for WD to come back in business, and now their replacement system is still broken.
To provide an update on my own experience, I finally received two replacement drives on May 17th. WD created the label on May 5th, but it took about a week for the drives to get picked up and scanned by UPS.
I opened my RMA on March 26th, so the total turnaround time was 52 days. This was a standard RMA, but for an enterprise product (two 22TB Gold drives).