High rate failure of 1.2TB HD on HP DL380p Gen8 with fully populated (25) hard drives.

HP DL380p Gen8

Smart Array 420i

25 hard drives

OS - Red Hat 6+

This a global issue...

This brings the total of 1.2TB HDDs replaced to 20 so far, a case was raised with HP because of the high number of failures, there are a couple of strange issues about these incidents, all the failed HDDs are in slot 20 as a hot spare, the controller is at 5.22,  yet HP did not pick up on this, if we had received a bad batch of HDDs, the failures would be in various slots, the odds of installing every bad HDD in slot 20 are vast.

Smart Array P420i in Slot 0 (Embedded)    (sn: 001438031178480)

   array A (SAS, Unused Space: 0  MB)

      logicaldrive 1 (279.4 GB, RAID 1, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:1 (port 1I:box 1:bay 1, SAS, 300 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 300 GB, OK)

   array B (SAS, Unused Space: 0  MB)

      logicaldrive 2 (16.4 TB, RAID 6, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:3 (port 1I:box 1:bay 3, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:4 (port 1I:box 1:bay 4, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:5 (port 1I:box 1:bay 5, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:6 (port 1I:box 1:bay 6, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:7 (port 1I:box 1:bay 7, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:8 (port 1I:box 1:bay 8, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:9 (port 1I:box 1:bay 9, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:10 (port 1I:box 1:bay 10, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:11 (port 1I:box 1:bay 11, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:12 (port 1I:box 1:bay 12, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 1I:1:13 (port 1I:box 1:bay 13, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 2I:1:14 (port 2I:box 1:bay 14, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 2I:1:15 (port 2I:box 1:bay 15, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 2I:1:16 (port 2I:box 1:bay 16, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 2I:1:17 (port 2I:box 1:bay 17, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 2I:1:18 (port 2I:box 1:bay 18, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 2I:1:19 (port 2I:box 1:bay 19, SAS, 1200.2 GB, OK)

      physicaldrive 2I:1:20 (port 2I:box 1:bay 20, SAS, 1200.2 GB, Predictive Failure, spare)

   Enclosure SEP (Vendor ID HP, Model Gen8 ServBP 25+2) 377 (WWID: 5001438029C5DE13