Anyone else having issues with WD Red Pro 20TB drives?

[Shoukaku]

They are definitely different. The Ultrastar driveline was acquired when WD bought out HGST and simply rebranded. The pro is their own manufactured product. I am curious..what supplier did you purchase the drive from? I assume it is boxed retail? Not refurbed or specially flashed firmware?

Yes, they come in boxed retail. Not refurbed or flashed. I bought them from two different distributors, both officially licensed. Two of the HDD manufactured in same batch at 10 NOV 2023, and another one is at 02 DEC 2023.

 

[zombiephysicist]

I'm not saying they are same products, I mean they are not that much different from a perspective of specs, like comparing IronWolf, SkyHawk and EXOS.
Though HC560 is designed for corps, the drives still 'fails', i mean may be not compatible with the hardware, on my NAS.

Anyway, I suppose I will give Seagate a shot, but have to wait for few weeks for RMA before that.

Just for the record, Seagate Iron Wolf are poop! I've had them fail way too much. Terrible drives. Only drives i trust are EXOS.

To be fair, I havent tried Iron Wolf pro, and on paper they are closer to the EXOS, but I'm done experimenting.

From seagate, the ONLY drive I take are EXOS. All others are dead to me. But particularly the regular iron wolf. I went through about 10 of them with 7 of them dying WAY WAY WAY too soon.