Dead man walking
For every new drive I get I do a full write to the disk to make sure if it's gonna die early it happens before I start using it.
I did a full 8tb write to the disk, then another 8tb write, then an 8tb read to make sure the data was all good.
It passed with flying colours, but I started using it, wrote 2tb to it fine, then copied another file and got nine thousand bad sectors. Fun.
I'm retesting it to see how it behaves, but unless it fixes itself up this is going right back to the seller.
All that said, three year warranty and they're cheap as chips so bleh. Two stars. (I've got another and I'll get the first replaced with a third, so I might update this review later.)
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