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Gilco2

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Topic # 173465 24-May-2015 16:35

Hi I have an Asustor 604 Nas with 4 WD Red 3TB hard drives and have a spare WD 3TB green drive. In the last year 2 drives failed big time and now another looks to be failing. Smart has Reallocated sector count value 200 worst 200 raw value 1 and State Bad. Also has Current Pending Sector value 200 Worst 200 raw value 40 and State Bad.
Is it okay to replace it with a green drive. With 20 odd green drives only ever had 1 fail over the years but most reds have failed. I know if it really is failing it is under warranty and good luck sending it back to where I bought from. Others that were completely dead were a hassle getting replaced

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Reply # 1310844 24-May-2015 16:48

You'd have to get the wdidle utility (or something like that) to stop the green going to sleep after 6 seconds idle. Mixed drives are fine, not perfect but fine.

Raw value 1 means one sector reallocated, which isn't really a big deal. The 40 pending sounds fishy though.

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Reply # 1310845 24-May-2015 16:54

timmmay: You'd have to get the wdidle utility (or something like that) to stop the green going to sleep after 6 seconds idle. Mixed drives are fine, not perfect but fine.

Raw value 1 means one sector reallocated, which isn't really a big deal. The 40 pending sounds fishy though.

Thanks, the WD Green already has been modified with wdidle. At present I am running Asustor Disk Doctor on the drive but at 15% after 1 hour it will take a while to get final result.
I may even decommission both Asustor Nas and resurrect WHS 2011 as can mix and match sizes as well.

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Reply # 1310846 24-May-2015 16:55

How old are the drives that are failing? Drive failures should be rare, sometimes it can mean something else is wrong - power or temperature.

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Reply # 1310850 24-May-2015 17:02

now 12 months. No problem with WD Green in same hardware for 11 months preceding these.

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Reply # 1310852 24-May-2015 17:07

They have a 3 year warranty, have them replaced. If you don't need the replacement sell them.

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Reply # 1310856 24-May-2015 17:14

once this built in test has finished if it still shows bad I will contact where I got them from and send it to Auckland. It was worse than pulling teeth last time from that place.

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