HD-WL6TU3R1-EB Dead Drive 1 - Rebuild 1% then beep

[vttech]

Hi everyone,

My WL6TU3R1 Duo drive of a few years started getting slow a few months ago and the fan was louder. So I did a firmware update to v1.00 which was successful but problems continued.

About 2 weeks ago started beeping and drive 1 light went red. I purchased a WD Red 3TB (WD30EFRX) to replace the dead 3TB Seagate drive that was in there (ST3000DM001).
Popped it in, red light started blinking consistently and drive 2 green was blinking as well but drive was not accessible. Status in the raid monitor utility said rebuilding. It went on for 10 days.
Then I saw that firmware 1.1 was released 5 days ago which addresses some of these issues. So I took out the new drive (drive 1), upgraded fw and then put in the new drive again. It started rebuilding, got to 1% then beep and red light for drive 1. I tried a few times, same results.

I then did a diskpart and clean for the new drive on my PC and put it back in but same result.

Any suggestions?

[davo]

Technically you should be using the same type of disks in a hardware RAID, not saying this is the exact problem but it would be a starting point.

[vttech]

Looks like there's a problem with the enclosure. I tested both original drives that were in there and no problems.
It's 6 years old so I guess it's gone bad.