There was the pin 3 issue.
I shucked an 8TB WD, and it didn't work in my computer. I put it in a WD My Cloud (Wish I had gone Synology then, and not his along the way) and it's working fine.
Maybe that issue made people hesitant?
Different customer base. I get that. I've used a few externals over my life, but prefer an external case with bays for multiple drives instead of the single casified external.
Is it me, or does it not seem like there are many decent black Friday deals on any kind of internal storage whether it be a spinning hard drive or a solid-state device? My last drive purchase was a 16 TB Toshiba enterprise and they paid $225. Black Friday deals. Don’t even come close to this. Except, perhaps, if people are willing to shuck.
I have a Synology NAS with Toshiba 8TB drives. One drive has 19,000 hours, but was on the shelf for a time, so past warranty. No reported bad sectors, but the NAS reports a "Drive Reconnect count" of 83, all in the last few months.
Can you tell me what exactly is happening? Is it drive related or might I have a bad SATA connection in the NAS? I'm ok if it just needs to be tossed, once I understand what's going on.
Hardly. There are infinite stories of mistakes we've all made. Kind of you to share the warning.
Well over a decade ago, some complained about their speed, thinking they should see closer to 1Gb/s with their set up. I asked them to look at their ethernet connectors, 4 conductor or 8? These were 10/100, just 4 copper wires, as that was enough to get 100Mb/s.
They replied "I am a moron." No they weren't either. Easy to miss something when there are so many bits of stuff going on.