I could understand (1) bad drive as bad luck, but (2) is unacceptable

If you're looking for space its a great drive and at 7200

I bought a Synology DiskStation 1-Bay Diskless Private Cloud NAS (DS115J), Western Digital Red Pro 2TB NAS Internal Hard Drive, and a Bose SoundTouch 20 Series III Wireless Speaker to set up sound in our kitchen.

A hard drive with a 5-year warranty that dies after 33 DAYS, or the company that makes them --in this case Western Digital -- responding unreasonably with rigid rules that are far from appropriate

It was easy to install the hard drive in the NAS and install it on my wireless router.

Western Digital needs to stop this crap, many Hard Drive manufacturers were sued a few years back because of this.

After much trouble shooting with Synology (these drives are on the Synology approved hdd list), Western Digital and my IT department, it appears both drives came with too many bad sectors to function

Everything about them makes them a perfect drive.

I've enjoyed having no fear of running out of capacity on my hard drive anymore

For pretty much anything you like, this drive is versatile

To avoid the "religious wars" of hard drives, particularly between Seagate and Western Digital, either will perform well for you.

It took additional attempts for acknowledgement of my return of the bad drive shipment back to them, which then finally activated the full 5 year warranty on the replacement drive

From my point of view, for a business, the purchase of the hard drive is not just the sheet metal and magnetic discs needed to put them together, it is the company backing the drive, ensuring its reliability

Western Digital replaced the drive (finally agreeing to pay shipping back the bad drive to them)

I figured even good companies have a few buggy drives