LOL! My new WD RE2 1TB drive shows as only 33MB
I mean come on already! ...me and my God given luck...:shakes:
First my WD 500GB GP drive arrives DOA and now this. My build will NEVER be complete. They continue to bit the dust!
I have 8 WD1000FYPS drives intended for my Raid5 array, I'm testing how everything works for some time now. And everything was going fine.
Yesterday a drive on port3 dropped with "power on restart" failure given by 3ware controller.
I tried to rebuild but it kept doing the same in a loop.
Tried to switch ports with another drive... No go, still the same drive gives errors.
So, I DL the WD diag tools and it reported nothing's wrong although the the tests were finished in 2sec time:rolleyes:. I mean come ON wd, those are you own drives.:rolleyes:
So, I wrote zeroes to "entire" drive and what do I notice: the drive is a whooping 33MB in size.:eek:
After that debacle I tried Seatools and it reports error when doing a "short generic" test it fails when doing "outer" region test.
Sure enough: bios, and disk management all see it as a 33Mb drive, you can even format it... I have to see if I can bench it, though:D
DAMN, all this.
But I guess I could consider myself lucky for not loading my data on it already:rolleyes:Yeah quite lucky...:shakes: