Hard drive failure - Western Digital Reds (WDC_WD40EFPX)

So…for those who value their data and put in long hours…

I class myself in this category, and VERY disappointed to find that the ZimaCube has POSSIBLY fried 2 of my drives. The drives in the first two slots are now unresponsive and it has killed my dataset and therefore I have lost all my data. If only one drive had gone I could have recovered the data.

Any ideas as to why this happened? Drives are Western Digital Red (WDC_WD40EFPX). I already had to spend a fortune on new drives as I was aware that there were issues with Seagate Ironwolf drives so I didn’t use the ones I had. The drives are less than a few months old. I have yet to see if the drives work in an external caddy and will post back here if thats the case.

Very unhappy with the ZimaCube right now.

Additional:
Drives tested in external caddy - Unresponsive, so appear to be completely dead. I took the brave/stupid decision to try the 2 remaining drives in the same bays that the dead drives were in and they still work. So now that my initial annoyance has died down over these drives, I have contacted the store I purchased from and should hopefully be able to get them replaced.

Have to admit - don’t think I can tolerate any more drive failures. If it happens again then I’ll be returning the ZimaCube.

Just FYI, Red drives are notoriously bad. I’m not invalidating your experience, just adding that the Reds probably didn’t do you any favors. I had 4 Reds in an EX4. 3 of them died.

Can confirm, I also experienced 2 failed WD Reds in a Synology NAS.