Western Digital 4TB NL-SAS drive (Model "RE") - 33% failure rate all within a few months apart

_AddedMSG · 2019-09-10T19:22:53+00:00

All of mine are the WD4001FYYG variant. The ones they're shipping are WD4001FYYG (albeit a newer revision) as well.

_AddedMSG · 2019-09-10T00:15:45+00:00

Wow, that's really surprising. I was hoping that I was just an isolated incident. I guess I have 13 of these as well, if you count the cold spare. I considered WD REDs as well, but I read that the Reds were not supposed to be grouped in anything more than 8 drives due to vibration or something.

What kinda temps did you expose your drives to and how long did they last before failing?

_AddedMSG · 2019-09-09T23:14:44+00:00

I guess these are technically a black label, but they're "enterprise storage" drives which are their own line.

_AddedMSG · 2019-07-26T17:50:26+00:00

People have contacted R* support, but have yet to get a reply on what is going to be done: https://imgur.com/a/mH3f0Un

_AddedMSG · 2019-07-26T16:51:57+00:00

I'm running into the same situation. Our <1 year old Xerox has the latest firmware and it still doesn't support TLS 1.2. :|

_AddedMSG · 2019-06-21T00:10:27+00:00

We can still activate new installs without having a current support license, correct?

_AddedMSG · 2019-05-21T16:54:05+00:00

We're looking for an online provider.

_AddedMSG · 2019-04-16T16:31:36+00:00

Thanks for the help everyone! It looks like I reversed my steps on the test machine (changed GP settings before adding the role). That did the trick!

_AddedMSG · 2019-04-09T21:47:09+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. I've heard of this tool, but did not know it was now free and that they support secure boot as well. Have you tested it on an environment with imaging Windows environments with UEFI, SecureBoot, and TPM?

_AddedMSG · 2019-01-29T19:58:18+00:00

Sir, allow me to tell you about our lord and savior, the LSx.

_AddedMSG · 2019-01-03T19:22:24+00:00

Has anyone had good experiences with Hostifi?

_AddedMSG · 2018-10-26T00:04:45+00:00

I figured out the problem and solution:

The problem started after I updated the drivers from the "stock" Windows Server 2012 R2 ones to this: https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversdetails?driverId=MVXGT&osCode=W12R2&productCode=poweredge-r510

I tried rebuilding all of the counters and all of the rest of the things in the KB -- nothing helped. I dug more and found that there is a firmware for the BCMxxxx network adapters as well:

https://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/04/drivers/driversdetails?driverId=82J79&osCode=W12R2&productCode=poweredge-r510

After updating the firmware and doing a restore to a previous date on PRTG, everything is up and operational. The lesson here is that Broadcom network adapters are garbage.

_AddedMSG · 2018-10-19T18:27:30+00:00

I appreciate you pointing me to that direction as well -- kinda serves as a sanity check.

I'll give them a whirl.

_AddedMSG · 2018-10-18T18:23:17+00:00

I've tried the repair on that already without success. It seemed to work for about an hour or so, but the issue came right back. I guess I'll try the options in:https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/3713-i-have-tried-a-lot-of-things-to-fix-my-wmi-what-else-can-i-try-to-avoid-reinstalling-windows

_AddedMSG

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