Interesting, I have not. All drives are on SC60 firmware. I'll give the FW upgrade a shot but I haven't noticed any noise from my side. Then again, my SC847 isn't silent...Have you upgraded the firmware?
The hum only occurs when the drives are at idle, my nas is located in my living room so it was completely untenable. With the new firmware they are silent, if you have a problem finding the firmware let me know and I'll send you a link to it. Good luck!Interesting, I have not. All drives are on SC60 firmware. I'll give the FW upgrade a shot but I haven't noticed any noise from my side. Then again, my SC847 isn't silent...
Good to know, generally you give up the warranty if you pull drives out of their enclosures so it's nice to see WD standing behind their warranty!FWIW you can get 8TB reds for $500/pair with the mybook duo 16TB, they are HGST-based helium models. (so no worries about SMR etc)
You CAN warranty each drive separately (2yr instead of 3yr though) just keep the original mybook serial number.
I should mention I had a bit of a rough time finding a USB stick that would work. I kept getting strange boot glitches but eventually used an old 8GB stick I had lying around and it worked. I'm not sure why it's so picky but just keep trying different sticks until one works.You bet, I'll just post it here in case anyone else needs it as well:
Seagate 8TB NAS drive firmware.rar