Western Digital drives in a Synology NAS will apparently flash a warning to users to replace them after they sense they have been powered on for three years, even if nothing is actually wrong with the drives.
this week, some users of Western Digital hard drives started to notice that they have begun to warn them that they need to be replaced, even if there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with the drives. This is happening with drives that have been inserted into a Network Attached Storage device, such as a Synology NAS, as those devices are basically always on and would start to show this warning first.
The warning appears to be hard coded into the drives from WD with a specific time stamp, as shown by YouTuber SpaceRex who managed to find the actual code language that comes from the WD hard drive and specifically communicates to the NAS software to issue a warning.spoke with Synology which confirmed the warning is coming from WD and not the NAS manufacturer.
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