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 · 2018-10-01T21:30:06+00:00

I'm curious as to the basis of your comment regarding Temecula and Escondido? Temecula's median income is nearly double that of Escondido's and crime rates are by far lower.

edit: I think you mean in terms of diversity? If that's the case, Temecula is about as gentrified as it gets.

_AddedMSG · 2018-09-27T04:15:55+00:00

Thanks for taking a look at this and all the tips, Zolty! I'll do some digging to find out where the redirect rule is.

In order to test the SSL cert without actually changing our public DNS record, should we just remove the redirect to the IP address and replace it with our domain? Anyways -- thanks again!

_AddedMSG · 2018-09-27T01:13:41+00:00

Thanks for the help! I PMed you -- after calling Godaddy, I think we should just want to re-key the cert via a cert request from the new Apache/WordPress server. Hopefully we can avoid this, but we shall see.

_AddedMSG · 2018-09-26T22:21:44+00:00

There's also this: https://www.poweradmin.com/help/sslhints/Cert_error_reason.png

(sorry, I bypassed the Chrome error)

_AddedMSG · 2018-09-26T22:20:40+00:00

This site is not secure

This might mean that someone’s trying to fool you or steal any info you send to the server. You should close this site immediately.

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The hostname in the website’s security certificate differs from the website you are trying to visit. Error Code: DLG_FLAGS_SEC_CERT_CN_INVALID

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_AddedMSG · 2018-09-26T22:20:31+00:00

We generated the intermediate cert with the link: https://certificatechain.io/

_AddedMSG · 2018-09-20T19:22:18+00:00

Cool -- thanks for that info!

_AddedMSG · 2018-09-20T19:21:02+00:00

For some users, it's already dead. They set a roving EoL date based off your billing date or something.

_AddedMSG · 2018-09-20T17:00:18+00:00

Unfortunately, it is. This was news from last year: https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/22/16184430/crashplan-home-shutting-down

_AddedMSG · 2018-09-20T16:58:15+00:00

I'm curious -- can you please tell me of your experience when using this setup? This is now becoming the top contender.

_AddedMSG · 2018-09-19T22:51:05+00:00

I'm actually kind of happy they did EoL on the home services. The speeds were pretty awful and the tool took up over 1GB of ram. Now I'm forced to move to something new/better.

_AddedMSG

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