Western Digital has ben caught again with anti consumer practices on their NAS drives. This time they are marking some of their drives which have had more than 3 years of power on hours as 'warning' within Synology DSM (this is right after their 3 year warranty runs out). This can cause tons of issues within DSM, as actual warnings, such as too many relocated sectors, will go unnoticed. This is not the first time WD NAS drives have had serious anticonsumer behavior, the most notable was them secretly shipping SMR drives as NAS drives. This test is the WDDA test (western digital device analytics) which is throwing the drives into 'warning' after 3 years of power on hours.

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UPDATED FINDINGS:    • I found PROOF!  

* Disclaimer *
No one has paid me to make this video or has any control over it. However I have received free hard drives in the past from both Synology (3x 8TB HDDs) and Segate (4x 8TB HDDs), though the Segate drives were through a third party. These drives were for review units, but I did get to keep them. This did not influence the making of this video, but I have included this for full transparency.


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Article on WD selling SMR NAS drives: https://www.extremetech.com/computing...

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TOC
00:00 Introduction: drives marked with "Warning" after 3 years
02:05 Previous WD issue: shipping SMR drives as NAS drives
04:05 My personal disclaimer
05:18 What's wrong with the 3 year warning
07:28 Impact on users
08:08 How to get around the issue if you already have WD drives
09:46 Conclusion

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