Were they all from the same batch?

Maybe a manufacturing defect?

And some of you guys told me not to get WD RED drives from Prime day.

Mine are still working, so there’s that.

Where did you buy them by the way? I wonder if from newegg since they have a suspicious low price there.

If these were in a RAID array, what can happen is that when one drive goes bad, the other drives get pushed into overdrive during recovery, which can then tip those over the edge.

Yipe, I’m running recertified Exos X18 drives and my RAID can only lose one. That’s some nice nightmare fuel :)