So I just got in my new 3TB Red drives and yet again another dead drive. I am getting sick of ordering drives from Newegg and having them show up dead. In the last week I have gotten 2 dead drives out of 8. This drive is in even worse shape than the last one. I start the preclear and it never even reads from the drive. When I checked the smart report it had 937 pending sectors. Is it possible that I did something wrong or is my luck just this bad lately?

I just ordered five red drives off newegg, let's hope mine aren't DoA.

 

As for shipping, I live in Florida and my SSD that I ordered from newegg ~ 3 months ago was completely battered up (The box) & the 'free game's serial didn't work. In England I order products quite a bit and I've never had as bad shipping, not really sure what to say other than newegg can't get their packaging together.

Two of the drives are just blazing along right now with no issues so far. So annoying and inconvenient. I am glad I preclear the drives first though. It just sucks because its going to set my migration back by a week at least. I am trying to decommission my old server and get the new one up and running.

Two of the drives are just blazing along right now with no issues so far. So annoying and inconvenient. I am glad I preclear the drives first though. It just sucks because its going to set my migration back by a week at least. I am trying to decommission my old server and get the new one up and running.

 

Couldn't you just knock unraid off the server and just slowly copy the data over & remove hard-drives one by one as you copy the data off them, then move them over to the new server? Or are you trying to get rid of those HDDs?

That's essentially the plan. I am going to transfer data one disk at a time and then clear each drive as I move it over. Losing this drive will slow me down though because now I will need to do one drive at a time instead of two.

I had a similar experience with some 2TB green WD drives - a year ago or so.  Ordered two they both failed one during first pass other later.  Sent first one back right away other one separately later.  Got two that were DOA so sent them back got 2 that were DOA again.  May have tried one more time with Newegg until I finally just RMA'd to WD directly.  WD set 3TB drives as replacements.  At the time that was bad because I was on 4.6 so couldn't use them.  That was when I went to Hitachi drives so of course they were bought by WD/Toshiba.  Had much better luck with Red drives but have had 1 bad one - also from newegg.  Have yet to get a bad drive from SuperBiiz or Amazon.  Sometimes I wonder if Newegg isn't dropping or X-raying the drives in their warehouse.  Otherwise Newegg has been great for me.

I had a similar experience with some 2TB green WD drives - a year ago or so.  Ordered two they both failed one during first pass other later.  Sent first one back right away other one separately later.  Got two that were DOA so sent them back got 2 that were DOA again.  May have tried one more time with Newegg until I finally just RMA'd to WD directly.  WD set 3TB drives as replacements.  At the time that was bad because I was on 4.6 so couldn't use them.  That was when I went to Hitachi drives so of course they were bought by WD/Toshiba.  Had much better luck with Red drives but have had 1 bad one - also from newegg.  Have yet to get a bad drive from SuperBiiz or Amazon.  Sometimes I wonder if Newegg isn't dropping or X-raying the drives in their warehouse.  Otherwise Newegg has been great for me.

 

I swear you could use them, but, only a 2.2TB partition? Which is still ~ 200GB more than you'd get with a 2TB one.

I had a similar experience with some 2TB green WD drives - a year ago or so.  Ordered two they both failed one during first pass other later.  Sent first one back right away other one separately later.  Got two that were DOA so sent them back got 2 that were DOA again.  May have tried one more time with Newegg until I finally just RMA'd to WD directly.  WD set 3TB drives as replacements.  At the time that was bad because I was on 4.6 so couldn't use them.  That was when I went to Hitachi drives so of course they were bought by WD/Toshiba.  Had much better luck with Red drives but have had 1 bad one - also from newegg.  Have yet to get a bad drive from SuperBiiz or Amazon.  Sometimes I wonder if Newegg isn't dropping or X-raying the drives in their warehouse.  Otherwise Newegg has been great for me.

 

I swear you could use them, but, only a 2.2TB partition? Which is still ~ 200GB more than you'd get with a 2TB one.

Yes I could have put a HPA on them to match the other 2TB drives and waist 1TB each.  Or gain an extra 200GB as one would have to be the parity drive to support the extra size of the other drive.  Instead I used them as recording drives on a SageTV server so they weren't useless just not useful in unRAID for me.

One thing I do not understand is how this drive even made to a consumer if it can't even pass a smart test. I know every new drive undergoes some testing at the factory, which is evident by the power on hours and the power cycle count, but seriously when the drive can't read at all and has a number of bad sectors right off the bat.

One thing I do not understand is how this drive even made to a consumer if it can't even pass a smart test. I know every new drive undergoes some testing at the factory, which is evident by the power on hours and the power cycle count, but seriously when the drive can't read at all and has a number of bad sectors right off the bat.

 

Really? Yours has power on hours? I always get 0 power on hours when I receive mine.

 

Anyway, like I said, probably poor shipping. They don't send a data server to your front door with your HDD to test it just before they give it to you, they test it WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY before it gets to you.

 

Yes, those As were required.

 

 

EDIT:- If you'd like to test my theory, take a working drive out of your server, smash it with a baseball bat, throw it out of a window, put it under water then burn it. Now, does it work?

 

No. Just because it use to work doesn't mean it'll always work.

Right I understand it could have been damaged in shipping. The situation is just annoying. But yes the drive already had power on hours. Most of my drives have had power on hours. I can only recall 1 that didn't out of the last 10 I purchased.

Right I understand it could have been damaged in shipping. The situation is just annoying. But yes the drive already had power on hours. Most of my drives have had power on hours. I can only recall 1 that didn't out of the last 10 I purchased.

 

I've only had one which has power on hours and that was a refurbished one, which is to be expected.

I got the new drive in a couple days ago and it precleared just fine. 60 hours for 2 passes. Definitely took longer than my other drives have but everything looked golden when it was done. I was concerned though because newegg did a worse job shipping this one to me than any of the others. It was in a box that was way too big and they had only bubble wrapped the top of the drive so the bottom was bare. It actually had broken through the anti-static bag from bouncing around. I am starting to think that I should not be buying drives from newegg anymore if this is what I can expect.