Yet another Western Digital drive is on its way to the grave. Yesterday out of nowhere the other server that didn't get new drives began displaying signs that it's dying. It might have shown the first early warning last month when the CPU fan was replaced. The system rebooted and locked itself in a system wide file check that uncovered numerous disk errors, but it appeared to fix itself.
Obviously that was an illusion. I came home from work to check the box and found the system throwing all sorts of bad node errors, it refused to allow logins, and had to be forced off at the power switch. The filesystem went through another forced check after booting up.
So I get to spend part of this weekend on another drive replacement. For the love of God, don't buy Western Digital! Their quality has gone down the shitter in a relatively short time. This will be my FOURTH dead drive in a year.
Keywords: bad, dead, hardware, system errors, western digital
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