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Re:Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after 3 years ... by elmerfud on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @12:05AM (#36414265)
This sounds like a mix of problems to me but mostly with Synology. Sure drives have built in thresholds and 3 years seems short to be but mostly this seems to be Synology and less so with WD. I have 8 WD Red NAS drives that I pulled out of service with 4.5 years of power on hours. There was no smart warning for power on hours. I have 8 other WD Red NAS drives running 5 years and again no smart threshold for power on time. Of course I'm not running Synology.

This almost seems like Synology is playing the enterprise SAN/NAS game of wanting you to toss your hardware every 3 years. Maybe there's a little be of fault here with WD but if so it's because that's what Synology wanted and not a issue with WD NAS drives.

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Re:Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after 3 years ... by guraf on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @12:31AM (#36414410)
The alert isn't raised by traditional SMART, it's done by WDDA [1] and my understanding is that it's not controlled by Synology.

You could still blame Synology for supporting WDDA, if you really wanted to shift blame I guess.

1. https://www.westerndigital.com/en-ca/solutions/device-analyt...

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Re:Western Digital NAS drives flash ‘warning’ after 3 years ... by theluketaylor on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @06:11AM (#36416634)
In fact synology’s response was to start ignoring WDDA, so they removed themselves from the situation.
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