Hard drives and hard locks in windows, can it be avoided?

[ComputerRepairTech]

One of the things i've noticed with my QNAP nas is that its very tolerable of hard drives that seem to cause serious issues with my other systems, granted my other systems run windows and don't run in a raid configuration.

For example I have this weird WD red that in the QNAP nas just shuts off once every few months, I decided to put in another WD red and plug in this WD red in my main PC as an extra drive just to make sure it wasnt a bay issue in the NAS.

Within the next 2 days my windows system had already hard locked twice and BSOD 3 times. I have another SSD that will hard lock a PC but in the nas seems to run fine so I was wondering is there a way to make windows more immune to this kind of thing? For example would having a hardware raid controller with a raid 10 array make me more immune from a hard freeze from a drive issue?

I don't plan to keep the drive or anything reckless like that but I was just curious about this kind of thing.

 

[Alexey]

It is the QNAP which is a problem, not Windows. I have seen it several times with slightly defective drives (say, up to thousand bad sectors maybe). QNAP will spend time trying to access the drive, then decide to recover using its RAID capability, and will eventually complete the request. This manifests itself as requests to QNAP coming through really slow. However, instead of just flagging the drive dead and flashing red light for replacement, QNAP will keep the drive online. Put the same drive into another system, and the system dies near immediately (if no RAID), or flags the drive dead (if RAID). QNAP tends to keep bad drives longer than it should.