Digging up this old thread again... it's about 3TB drives now, but everything else should still apply.

Mark, have you heard anything about bad series of WD 3TB drives? More in particular the WD30EZRX series? On Newegg, 33% of all user reviews claim this to be a bad drive since a lot of them seem to be DOA or die within the first couple of days. I know you like Western Digital the best of all brands, and so do I. But this news is disturbing to me. Does it hold any truth to it? This seems an exceptionally bad track record for a Western Digital drive. (and I'm in the market for one because I want to built an unRAID server)