1st 2TB W DEARS drive dies after 3 weeks of running 24/7

[Tekkie]

This morning I had a nasty surprise on my brand new FreeNAS system, after 3 weeks of running 24/7 my first HD died.

I half expected one of Seagate drives to die, but to my surprise it was one of the WD EARS drives that decided to develop bad sectors.

 

[matthewowen01]

that sucks. i lost both 2 TB disks in a mirror in a span of a few hours earlier this year. i no longer have just a single disk of redundancy, all my pools are raidz2, even my 4 disk pool.

 

[rickwhois]

that's bad news. Did you choose "Force 4096 bytes sector size" when you created the volume? I read somewhere that these drives operate better with the sector size.

 

[Tekkie]

Yeh did the 4K sector size using 8.0.1-beta2, zpool scrub also recovered 128KB of bad sectors, as the drive was bought with Amazon in the UK exchanging it is a no-hassel affair and I can live a couple of days with a drive less in the system.

 

[sleid]

Hello,
Keep in mind that the ideal operating temp of a hard drive is between 25 ° C and 40 ° c outside these values ​​their life is random.

 

[freeflow]

I bought 3x1TB Hitachi drives for a FreeNAS upgrade. Two failed within a month (one within days of installation).

 

[Tekkie]

@sleid,

the drives live in cages with dedicated fans blowing fresh air over them ;) temperature is well within acceptable parameters.

 

[SoftDux-Rudi]

Those EARS drives aren't built for 24/7 usage so if they were' constantly being accessed 24hours a day then you could expect a short lifespan from them. Rather get RAID Edition drives if you need something that will run 24/7

 

[Tekkie]

The 24/7 should not be a problem for a week or so IMHO. ;) After that the drives will be given an easier time as the NAS is used at home.

 

[Yagobg]

I have 10 x 2TB WDEARS in a single radisz2 pool and they have been working fine since install day which was two months ago. I don't remember if I selected the 4k option when creating the pool but the monster is working great. I'm keeping my fingers crossed regarding the drives I know they are not build for 24x7 environment. Thinking about exchanging them one by one.

 

[ProtoSD]

At least you're lucky enough that it failed in the first 30days and you can get another NEW one instead of doing an RMA and getting stuck with a refurbished one.

 

[Tekkie]

AFAIK in Europe at least a warranty replacement cannot be a refurbished item.