Has this (the enclosure, not the disks) failed on any of you sooner than 3 years?
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Have had product in operation with 1 TB Seagate Berracuda disks for at least 4 years with no failures of the disks or the enclosure. I use it mainly for photo and home movie storage. I do some moderate streaming of music and video. I have been very pleased with this setup and the Synology GUI is easy to get around in (granted I don't do much advanced networking with it). If you go with it just make sure you get the correct drives (smaller 12mm laptop drives)
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Could be more is an issue with the drive encolsure you are using. i have had similar issues with BestBuy's Rocketfish brand enclosures. The Sabrent ones i have oened just had the ide/sata to usb controller die on me.
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Bought mine in Aug 2014, loaded 8 WD Red 4TB drives into without issue, I can't image there being a problem with the 6 TB drives.
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Unfortunately, I think the warranty needs to be purchased ahead of time. So far my hard drive is doing alright (knock on wood). If you did order from Amazon.com perhaps they have a warranty??? Sorry, hope things work out!!!
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I Sorry, but I haven't Lacie Rugged, I have Seagate and Toshiba and is very nice to both.
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27 months....Feb 2012 - May 2014.....installed as OS boot drive only, no data reads/writes. Installed in a fairly large desktop case, near a fan with plenty of airflow on all sides. Drive failure to respond was consistent over several days, however no data was lost. I was able to clone this drive to a new SSD, which is now running without incident for a couple of days.
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I havent delt with a 3tb drive as yet, but I would imagine it depends on the motherboard, its bios settings and the operating system. To be honest I wouldnt trust the Sabrent, I had a fairly new hard drive in it and eventually it started making odd noises. I checked the drive with a different connection and it was fine, something had went south on the Sabrent pc board. Ive been using a Rosewill encloser and its been running fine for a couple years.
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Haven't had that, but after 3 months Lenovo says my hard drive went out and has to be replaced. I lost everything on it and it has to be sent in for repairs. I am never buying a windows machine again. My MacBook has been going strong for 4 years.
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Cant say. I haven't had any issues with my drive at all. Its been working great for me the last few months. Mine has been HIGHLY reliable to the point
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I just checked www.wdc.com Typed in Serial Number from drive I received. Answer from WD: "The warranty for this product has expired. The product is not eligible for replacement. If you need technical assistance, please send us email." So either Seller is warranting this drive OR NO ONE IS!!! I, for one, would like to hear from the seller on this matter!
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Even if others have...that's not an indicator that it will do the same for you. The expected life of these drives is around 2 years under conditions like that. Sometimes more, sometimes less depending on how active your drives are operating. I change these drives every 24 months whether they have failed or not. Then again, our drives are working hard every day, 5 days a week. I do shut the NAS with these drives down for 10 -12 hours 2-3 times a month.
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Yes, I purchased the 3 TB one a short while back and have been using it with Time Machine for months with no issues.
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OMG, NO! We had one fail without notice and it was a major problem. We thought the dual drive on ours would be a safe backup system, but the entire drive failed. A service company worked on it and we were fortunate to retrieve most of the data, but it was a very close call and expensive. Now we have TWO separate backup drives on all systems.
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I could be wrong, but it doesn't appear so. Check out this discussion:http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-1631920/party-hard-drives-server-warranties.html
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Impossible to tell whether this is the Western Digital enclosure fault, or whether your HD itself is damaged. Have you tried attaching the WD Passport to other PCs/Mac's? Do you have ability to remove the HDD and insert t a PC tower to see it is spins up and is seen? Yes, buying and trying this MiniPro sata piece will likely tell you what it as fault (and it is a very good encloser from experience), but there other troubeshooting steps you should research before purchasing.
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I have a DS409 that is about 5 years old now. I built a FreeNAS box 2 years ago and have had a lot of issues (12x3TB drives with 2 as hot spares and 10 in raid z2)... The FreeNAS version I used didn't pick up the hot spares as two of my drives failed and the SAS/SATA card I used has been buggy... not that Synology boxes never fail... I'm thinking of getting one of the 12-drive ones to replace my freenas box. I upped my DS409 to 4x4TB drives to backup my freenas until I resolve the issues. Having done both, Synology is a better option imho.
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I have had the drive as my main operating system, as well as mass storage drive for almost a year, and so far, it has been reliable, fast, and quiet. However, as the previous person responded, I am using Linux, which does put less stress on the drive and the file system is a bit better at file allocation, ETC...My experience is very positive in this environment. (Using the 3TB version partitioned into three sections)