UNVR and drive issues

Computer Hardware & Server Infrastructure Builds
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I am running into an interesting issue on a UNVR and WD drives.
I am installing a UNVR and I tried putting a WD WD43PURZ (4 TB Purple Surveillance) and it recognized it and said it was defective. This was both with the original OS 2.4.10 and the latest 3.2.12. We won’t go into the silliness of upgrading the firmware. JKHS$%#@S

But UNVR works fine with a WD8001PURP (8 TB Purple Pro Surveillance) at 3 times the price for twice the capacity.

The WD43PURPZ passes the WD drive tests in short test in an external USB SATA dock. Running the long test but no errors yet.

Of course Ubquiti publishes a Compatibility list which is the inverse, they list a couple of drive that don’t work.

Has anyone else run into this?
Dave

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After some back and forth with Ubquiti support all they will say that their private label 8 and 16 TB drives will work. The rest is at our peril. That seems rather silly of them.

So let’s start our own compatibility list.

Drives that work:
WD8001PURP 8 TB Purple Pro Surveillance Drive

Drives that Don’t seem to work!
WD43PURZ 4 TB Purple Surveillance Drive