I have no idea whether this is now known here,

Model : ST1000DM003

S/N : W1D0LXS2

P/N : 9YN162-303

Fw : CC4D

Date :12344

Stite : WU

I managed to connect to the disk's serial interface, and this is the diagnostic output it gives upon power-up. Hopefully someone qualified can step up and tell us what it actually is that the ST1000DM003s are choking on .

Boot 0x40M

Spin Up[0x000065B4][0x00006A20][0x00006E8C]

Trans.


Rst 0x40M

MC Internal LPC Process

Spin Up

(P) SATA Reset



MCMainPOR: Start:

Check MCMT Version: Current

MCMainPOR: Non-Init Case

MC Seg Disc and Cache Nodes: 40125B20 40122EF8

Seg Write Preamble VBM start: 0000204A end: 00002091

Footer - start: 00002093 end: 000020DA

Seg Read Preamble VBM - start: 000020DC end: 00002123

Footer - start: 00002125 end: 0000216C

Reconstruction: MCMT Reconstruction Start

Max number of MC segments 0A61

Nonvolatile MCMT sequence number 0038E0B8

[RSRS] 0729

ProcessRWError -Read- at LBA 000000000005CA36 Sense Code=40000087

InitiateMarkPendingReallocateRequest for disc_lba: 000000000005CA36!



Reconstruction: EXCEPTION: Seg Read Fail: Status = 0000

Continuing after error

ReadFooters (Forward): Segment 0729 StartLBA 00000000002E5138 Starting Footer LBA 00000000002E5180

SeqNum 0038E0B9 TotalUserBlocks 0000

ProcessRWError -Read- at LBA 000000000005CA36 Sense Code=40000087

InitiateMarkPendingReallocateRequest for disc_lba: 000000000005CA36!



Footer Status = 0000

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Footer Status = 0001

Reconstruction: EXCEPTION: Segment Overall Sequence Number Mismatch, No Valid Footer 0038E0B9 AABBAAAA

Reconstruction: ProcessIncompletelyWrittenSegment

"Help me"???

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Please scroll down to #12.

The only other "clue" you gave was a "keyword" of the HDD Model.

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