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About this blog: Computers hate me. They really do. Every time I try to do something unusual like add new hardware, something is guaranteed to go wrong. I decided to start writing about my constant problems so that someone else might benefit from my experiences - or at least laugh at them!

WD RE3 failure after 175 hours powered on

26 April 2009, 08:42am

I don't recall ever seeing so many of the "critical" SMART values being higher than zero on a failed drive. This one is a brand new Western Digital RE3 1TB drive, installed in a server I've just ordered in the USA. When setting up mirroring it was obvious there was something very wrong: the logs filled with errors about timeouts, and it eventually stopped responding completely. After a reboot I was able to run smartctl to query the SMART values and determine that the drive was also admitting it had issues.

The last 3 USA servers I've commissioned have all had drive problems which required at least one replacement. I am so freaking jinxed!!!