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I am really disappointed with WD HDD internal drives.
I have bought the 1 TB WD Blue in 2014 which went bad and was RMA to get a fresh WD Blue. this was within a year for purchase.

Next this 1 TB WD Blue new drive again gone bad within 10 months of usage.. which was RMA for a fresh new 2TB WB BLACK

Now this WD BLACK
(which is su[pose to be a higher quality HDD) gone bad with 1.3 years of usage.

Now i really doubt the quality of HHD produced by WD.. :(

current issue : system asking to run the recovery tool during boot, takes long time to boot, sometimes does not boot at all, giving error : current pending sector

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Not sure what to tell you besides try Seagate. My Caviar Green has been solid now for nearly 8 years and it's suppose to be one of the worst WD has made.
 
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is there anything i can do to save this disk ??
 
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I am really disappointed with WD HDD internal drives.
I have bought the 1 TB WD Blue in 2014 which went bad and was RMA to get a fresh WD Blue. this was within a year for purchase.

Next this 1 TB WD Blue new drive again gone bad within 10 months of usage.. which was RMA for a fresh new 2TB WB BLACK

Now this WD BLACK
(which is su[pose to be a higher quality HDD) gone bad with 1.3 years of usage.

Now i really doubt the quality of HHD produced by WD.. :(

current issue : system asking to run the recovery tool during boot, takes long time to boot, sometimes does not boot at all, giving error : current pending sector

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I understand your concern but I think your either unlucky or maybe blameing the wrong thing , a motherboard can cause hdd death with poor pciex bus frequency regulation for example.
The only hdd i ever had fail was a wd blue , one of three in raid0 by not clamping that bus speed while overclocking bcclck bus.
Ive got a lot of old drives at 5+ years old and no deaths lately.
I mentioned it as two in the same pc seams like a lot of bad luck.
 

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I am really disappointed with WD HDD internal drives.
I have bought the 1 TB WD Blue in 2014 which went bad and was RMA to get a fresh WD Blue. this was within a year for purchase.

Next this 1 TB WD Blue new drive again gone bad within 10 months of usage.. which was RMA for a fresh new 2TB WB BLACK

Now this WD BLACK
(which is su[pose to be a higher quality HDD) gone bad with 1.3 years of usage.

Now i really doubt the quality of HHD produced by WD.. :(

current issue : system asking to run the recovery tool during boot, takes long time to boot, sometimes does not boot at all, giving error : current pending sector

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I feel your frustration to be sure, but you are taking your anecdotal experience and applying it to an entire company. I can counter that with a server full of 8 WD HDD, 4 of which are are over 30,000 hours. I have numerous other WD drives throughout the house running, including in my system specs, that have gone through daily cold starts and 15 to 20,000 hours. I've had one fail on me. All others I replaced because I needed more capacity.

I think there is perhaps something else at play here, including the possibility of just plain bad luck. Maybe we could figure out what else is going on?
 
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Are all your drives idling at almost 40 cels and is that normal for your drives? Also what is the MAX temps recorded for the failing drives according to SMART? For comparison my drives normally hover around 25 Cels and will hit mid 40 under extreme loads only.....also is there any vibrations being exposed to the rig with the failing hard-drives? like say maybe a sub-woofer.....or maybe the rig is on a bench shelve that get smacked around a lot while working on the bench? Just saying that this is food for thought.
 
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Is that drive being used as an external drive? If so, how is it powered? If it has its own wall transformer pluggy thingy doo-dad, I'd say your luck dried up there. Otherwise check your PSU and connections to it.
 
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Most of my drives exept for my SSD which is Kingston are all WD.
I have an external 640GB Green and it is still going strong after 8 years, i have a 1TB Blue in my rig along with the SSD. I also have a 500GB small 2.5 also WD which is used 4 - 5 years. Also i got another 500GB on my other machine for light work. My Toshiba laptop has a 1TB WD as well going 2 - 3 years.
All are good, no bad sectors, no corruption, no excessive heat, nothing.

There may be something to do with that board, maybe higher voltage, or something or just plain bad luck.
I would check sata conections to board and sata power from PSU.
Also instal AIDA 64 Extreme and see how much power is that drive pulling. Could be a bad power regulator on the drive itself.

Also try getting that drive hooked up to adapter or a external box with external power adapter to USB and see if you get different results on your drive. Just to rule out SATA.
 

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op is doing something wrong ...
 

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Hitachi, samsung or seagate.

watch out for esd and grounding in a case.

Otherwise you need a ups with filtration of power
 

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if hes killing drives at <2000 hours
then hes doing _something_ wrong
its unheard of
 

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if hes killing drives at <2000 hours
then hes doing _something_ wrong
its unheard of

Torrents, mining, using non server drives for server tasks.
 
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I suspect PSU, cables or mobo.

I have run WD drives for 30000hrs plus including much thrashing with torrents with no issues.

Posssibly OP is very unlucky or more likely there is another issue.
 
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Something isn't right, i use wd for just about everything and ive been using a wd black with known issues since the beginning of sata 6gig.
 
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I'm at loss of words here. I have had only one HDD in my entire life fail on me and it was when I first got into PC's I was using some Hitachi drive. I have used WD since then and have never had a drive fail. I have one in my closet that I used for 7 years, I just plugged it into my 2nd computer, installed windows and I'm using it to type this up right now. I hate to say this, but make sure you don't have any other issues causing your HDD's to go bad. Check PSU voltages, grounding in the case, etc. Not sure what else to check for, but seems like something is making them go bad much quicker than they should.
 
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Are all your drives idling at almost 40 cels and is that normal for your drives? Also what is the MAX temps recorded for the failing drives according to SMART? For comparison my drives normally hover around 25 Cels and will hit mid 40 under extreme loads only.....also is there any vibrations being exposed to the rig with the failing hard-drives? like say maybe a sub-woofer.....or maybe the rig is on a bench shelve that get smacked around a lot while working on the bench? Just saying that this is food for thought.
37 Cels to 38 Cels
 
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Is that drive being used as an external drive? If so, how is it powered? If it has its own wall transformer pluggy thingy doo-dad, I'd say your luck dried up there. Otherwise check your PSU and connections to it.
its the Internal single drive I have in my system
 
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Run WD Tools and talk
I'm goin out on a limb and saying there is nothing wrong with the drive. Run WD Tools and talk to SuperSoph_WD

Crystal Disk and HD Tune are not the end all tests

https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?DL

Yesterday my system refused to Boot in windows 7... but somehow i managed to go in the cmd mode and did a chkdsk /r one-by-one to each partition on the drive. post that I could boot into windows 7. The log for the chkdsk did not mention any error.
Also once again I checked the CrystalDiskInfo & HD Tune.. it gave me the same warning.

but not i am able to boot into windows. Also checked the WD Data Lifegaurd.. the SMART info in this show no issue at all.

all the more confused ..!!
 

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Are all your drives idling at almost 40 cels and is that normal for your drives? Also what is the MAX temps recorded for the failing drives according to SMART? For comparison my drives normally hover around 25 Cels and will hit mid 40 under extreme loads only.....also is there any vibrations being exposed to the rig with the failing hard-drives? like say maybe a sub-woofer.....or maybe the rig is on a bench shelve that get smacked around a lot while working on the bench? Just saying that this is food for thought.

Temps don't really matter. My server is up 24/7 running raid 50 across 10 refurbished seagate "enterprise" drivers they live at a constant 60c temp. One of the drives has failed slapped in a desktop grade seagate and haven't had an issue since.

The vibration thing I agree with or an awful psu that doesn't maintain atx spec would be my next guesses
 
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Yesterday my system refused to Boot in windows 7... but somehow i managed to go in the cmd mode and did a chkdsk /r one-by-one to each partition on the drive. post that I could boot into windows 7. The log for the chkdsk did not mention any error.
Also once again I checked the CrystalDiskInfo & HD Tune.. it gave me the same warning.

but not i am able to boot into windows. Also checked the WD Data Lifegaurd.. the SMART info in this show no issue at all.

all the more confused ..!!


I would do a complete reinstall. I know its a pain but something else is going on. When you do the format and install only have the system drive connected, make sue its GPT and AHCI. Any secondary drives connect after the install is complete
 
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Temps don't really matter. My server is up 24/7 running raid 50 across 10 refurbished seagate "enterprise" drivers they live at a constant 60c temp. One of the drives has failed slapped in a desktop grade seagate and haven't had an issue since.

The vibration thing I agree with or an awful psu that doesn't maintain atx spec would be my next guesses

Exactly, the drive results from many companies show, until you reach above 45C continuous operating temps it is better to have a warm drive than a cold one, but 47C is better than a cold drive, and if it makes it past year one, it will most likely make it past year 3.

I would suspect the PSU, or other issues as mentioned in this thread, like clock stability. Buy a cheap RAID/Interface card to isolate the drives from the board, $25 to see if its the board, and get some ferrite choke rings and run your power wires through them.
 
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first of all forgive me for my bad english

second you have high ( power on count ) did you disable power saving in idle ? both in windows and bios
i think turning on and off alot the hard drive wear it faster

your hard drive :
power on count = 1823
power on hours = 1900

i have same drives as yours

but my hard drives ( using it for 9 months so far , i keep my pc on most of the time with a good air flow to keep them cool 31c ~ 32 c with disabled power saving both in windows and bios )

2TB WD Black WD 2003FZEX :
power on count = 490
power on hours = 5203
https://image.ibb.co/fNppQF/2_TB_WD_Black.png

1TB WD Blue WD10EZEX :
power on count = 473
power on hours = 5202
https://image.ibb.co/cv1Qza/1_TB_WD_Black.png

both have good health status

but i have problem with the black one , not detected when i restart sometimes ( yes i tried everything , im sure the problem is in the hard drive )

also you might just have a bad luck , because i have old external drive with high power on and off count , and still good

im not defending WD , im just telling you about the power saving thing

WD 2TB Black 2003FZEX consume 9.5 w ( read / write) 8.1w ( idle ) 1.3w ( standby/sleep )

WD 1TB Blue WD10EZEX consume 6.8 w ( read / write) 6.1w ( idle ) 1.2w ( standby/sleep )

so for me saving ~5 watts per drive or ~10 watts for 2 drives , not worth it ( because it wear them down much faster )

i like power saving but not on HDDs
 

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I have 2 1TB Balcks I. RAID 0 that are easy pushing 7 years. They were before the flood/price hike. I have a 1B Blue as well but it’s maybe 2yrs old.
 
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I know someone that had a PSU that was killing drives through the sata power cable.

Anyway HDDs are the most unreliable components in a PC , wouldn't surprise me if these drives just failed by themselves with no connection. I had 2 seagate drives fail on me in less than a year.
 
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