LOL! My new WD RE2 1TB drive shows as only 33MB

[XS Janus]

I mean come on already! ...me and my God given luck...

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. I mean come ON wd, those are you own drives.
So, I wrote zeroes to "entire" drive and what do I notice: the drive is a whooping 33MB in size.

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

DAMN, all this.
But I guess I could consider myself lucky for not loading my data on it alreadyYeah quite lucky...

[Buckeye]

Dang man !

Can you take out that drive and format it in windows as a single drive and see the full amount of space ?

[alfaunits]

LOL, vrci to u radnju u menjaj, sta se igras
But since you got those... can you measure the power consumption of those drives? (say total system power with/without the 8 drives, and possibly spinup power consumption difference)

[XS Janus]

@Buckeye: I tried dude, the disk menagement and win see it as a cool 33MB

@alfaunits: Jaoooo! Sto me nece Sutra zovem svog dilera...

I did the power measurements. Adding one drive at a time it always adds ~0.02 to the power draw, and that makes it ~4.5W during normal/idle opperation.
The spinup I will have to go and see.
I posted some figures in my Raid5 thread in general hardware section.

Just realised that if I leave it this way I can probably applay for Guiness book of records for the most expensive drive per GB EVER!
~10000$/GB

[One_Hertz]

Probably firmware issues... Sometimes the passport gets corrupted and you get crap like that. Nothing you can do really, RMA.