> I seemed to miss the Deathstar failures, I believe it was largely an issue of cooling The biggest trouble with WD drives (at least pre 2015) was quality of t

> I seemed to miss the Deathstar failures, I believe it was largely an issue of cooling The biggest trouble with WD drives (at least pre 2015) was quality of the power. If you had a good PSU you wouldn't had a problem with WD. If you had some shit like Thermaltake... I had a case when TT PSU consistently broke RAID10, because there were too much USB devices. Replaced with a proper PSU with the same rate and everything went fine.