WD NAS drives flash warnings after 3 years even if they're fine

Some Western Digital NAS drives appear to be sending out "replace me!" warnings after an arbitrary time limit even in the absence of any actual hardware faults.

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Western Digital Red NAS drives generate warnings alerts after 3 years, even without problem