WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
 

I had my first DOA drive on Sunday in a very long time. It is a WD 6 TB external USB drive. Will not even spin up. And I bought it
from Big River back in September so I have to send it back to WD.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KU686HI/

Lynn

WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
 

On 1/3/2017 2:24 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
I had my first DOA drive on Sunday in a very long time. It is a WD 6 TB external USB drive. Will not even spin up. And I bought it
from Big River back in September so I have to send it back to WD.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KU686HI/

Lynn

BTW, what a pain ! And this is the fifth one of these that I have bought, no problems with the previous external drives.

Lynn

WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
 

On 1/3/2017 2:32 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
On 1/3/2017 2:24 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
I had my first DOA drive on Sunday in a very long time. It is a WD 6 TB external USB drive. Will not even spin up. And I bought it
from Big River back in September so I have to send it back to WD.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KU686HI/

Lynn

BTW, what a pain ! And this is the fifth one of these that I have bought, no problems with the previous external drives.

Lynn

Since I need another external drive yesterday (I archived the Dec 30, 2016 external drive), I went ahead and bought my first 8 TB
external drive for $220. Our LAN backup has been growing at 50 GB/month lately (I need to investigate this). I wonder if it will
even be 7 TB using 1,024 bytes instead of 1,000 bytes ?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHLGC/

And why doesn’t WD have an 8 TB green drive for sale yet ?

Lynn

WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
 

On 01/03/2017 04:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

I had my first DOA drive on Sunday in a very long time. It is a WD 6
TB external USB drive. Will not even spin up. And I bought it
from Big River back in September so I have to send it back to WD.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KU686HI/

Lynn

BTW, what a pain ! And this is the fifth one of these that I have
bought, no problems with the previous external drives.

Lynn

Since I need another external drive yesterday (I archived the Dec 30,
2016 external drive), I went ahead and bought my first 8 TB external
drive for $220. Our LAN backup has been growing at 50 GB/month lately
(I need to investigate this). I wonder if it will even be 7 TB using
1,024 bytes instead of 1,000 bytes ?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHLGC/

And why doesn’t WD have an 8 TB green drive for sale yet ?

I thought I had read that WD's "Green" drives were being discontinued.

Perce

WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
 

On Tue, 03 Jan 2017 23:26:17 -0000, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:

On 01/03/2017 04:00 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

I had my first DOA drive on Sunday in a very long time. It is a WD 6
TB external USB drive. Will not even spin up. And I bought it
from Big River back in September so I have to send it back to WD.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KU686HI/

Lynn

BTW, what a pain ! And this is the fifth one of these that I have
bought, no problems with the previous external drives.

Lynn

Since I need another external drive yesterday (I archived the Dec 30,
2016 external drive), I went ahead and bought my first 8 TB external
drive for $220. Our LAN backup has been growing at 50 GB/month lately
(I need to investigate this). I wonder if it will even be 7 TB using
1,024 bytes instead of 1,000 bytes ?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LQQHLGC/

And why doesn’t WD have an 8 TB green drive for sale yet ?

I thought I had read that WD's "Green" drives were being discontinued.

I bought 6 black drives from them, and almost all of them failed, some twice. They just overheated, all the bloody time.

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WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
 

On 1/3/2017 4:05 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

I bought 6 black drives from them, and almost all of them failed, some
twice. They just overheated, all the bloody time.

Were those externals?

The solution is to buy a directional desk fan like a Vornado and aim it
at the drive.

I took a WD green out of its usb 2 external enclosure and put in in a
usb 3 that had no vents. It would heat up, unless I used the fan, then
it was good for whatever time period.

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WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
 

On 1/3/2017 12:24 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
I have to send it back to WD.

They will send a refurbished!

I got one from them. It has been up to 55C .. ugh. OK otherwise.
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WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
 

Percival P. Cassidy wrote:

I thought I had read that WD's "Green" drives were being discontinued.

They have been. Blue is the new Green. The only remaining 7200rpm Blue
is the 1TB model; all the others are 5400rpm.

WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
 

James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

I bought 6 black drives from them, and almost all of them failed, some
twice. They just overheated, all the bloody time.

Blacks run hot. They need a lot of cooling. Even some enclosures with
fans aren't good enough.

WD external 6 TB USB drive DOA
 

Neill Massello wrote:
James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

I bought 6 black drives from them, and almost all of them failed, some
twice. They just overheated, all the bloody time.

Blacks run hot. They need a lot of cooling. Even some enclosures with
fans aren't good enough.

That is why I just buy naked HDDs even though their cables are annoying
to carry.
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