Synology NAS

Premature warnings of Western Digital drives with WDDA

Some models by Western Digitial seem to have a firmware which announces a "warning" after 3 years of use even without any real issue. This is not done via SMART but with WDDA.

Also see the article about this at The Verge

If neccessary one workaround is to disable WDDA support in the Synology NAS via SSH:

sudo synosetkeyvalue /etc.defaults/synoinfo.conf support_wdda no