A few years back I bought a 3TB Expansion Desktop Harddrive and thought it worked so well (despite the speed limitations) that I went out about a year later and bought a 4TB and ~6 months later a 5TB. Put a good portion of my things on all 3 (I'm fairly experienced and always have multiple backups) and stored the 3 and 4 in my server room. Ready for the real kicker? I brought the 5TB over to my mothers house (in case of a fire or whatnot) and stored it in her computer room.
Just recently after a windows 10 upgrade my server's OS drive went bad so I replaced it and reinstalled windows. Brought out the 3TB but the light no longer was coming on and I couldn't hear it spinning. All three have been in storage since the initial data copy... so it's surprising to have this one fail... but I know it happens.
No big deal. That's why we have backups... so I brought out the 4tb. Same deal. At this point I check my power, I check my cables, I check everything... and I'm starting to panic. Frantically I pry open both of the enclosures (carefully, not my first rodeo) and pop the hard drives into my primary gaming PC (very new, nice mobo). BIOS doesn't detect them at all. I pour over all the articles talking about various boot methods and whatnot, but none of it seems to apply.
Run over to Mother's and delicately bring back the 5TB so I can save my child's pictures/birth video/etc. and start this process over again. It too will not spin up in it's external enclosure... no lights. It too will not do anything when removed from the enclosure and plugged into to sata.
I'm not booting from these so I don't think UEFI boot is advice I can work with, and I've tried them in a Windows 10, Windows 7, Ubuntu and Mint computer... all failed me.
So I think it's the controllers in the enclosure, and the controller board on the drive. I have literally never seen a quadruple failure in less than 14 days and am beside myself trying to find a solution... but there don't seem to be any good answers. These are just really terrible drives.
Worth noting I have numerous other HDDs that were stored in the same area as the Seagates, and they all work fine (Including a 2TB free agent Seagate drive) so it's likely not anything with the area it was store (a constant 72 degrees with under 40% humidity in the summers). Hoping someone out there has an idea, because I literally can't afford recovery... which is why I was backing things up so hard in the first place. I need to know if there are any ideas to force a little more life (other than cold) or to get working replacement controllers... I'm comfortable doing anything but opening the HDD itself/platter-work.
Just recently after a windows 10 upgrade my server's OS drive went bad so I replaced it and reinstalled windows. Brought out the 3TB but the light no longer was coming on and I couldn't hear it spinning. All three have been in storage since the initial data copy... so it's surprising to have this one fail... but I know it happens.
No big deal. That's why we have backups... so I brought out the 4tb. Same deal. At this point I check my power, I check my cables, I check everything... and I'm starting to panic. Frantically I pry open both of the enclosures (carefully, not my first rodeo) and pop the hard drives into my primary gaming PC (very new, nice mobo). BIOS doesn't detect them at all. I pour over all the articles talking about various boot methods and whatnot, but none of it seems to apply.
Run over to Mother's and delicately bring back the 5TB so I can save my child's pictures/birth video/etc. and start this process over again. It too will not spin up in it's external enclosure... no lights. It too will not do anything when removed from the enclosure and plugged into to sata.
I'm not booting from these so I don't think UEFI boot is advice I can work with, and I've tried them in a Windows 10, Windows 7, Ubuntu and Mint computer... all failed me.
So I think it's the controllers in the enclosure, and the controller board on the drive. I have literally never seen a quadruple failure in less than 14 days and am beside myself trying to find a solution... but there don't seem to be any good answers. These are just really terrible drives.
Worth noting I have numerous other HDDs that were stored in the same area as the Seagates, and they all work fine (Including a 2TB free agent Seagate drive) so it's likely not anything with the area it was store (a constant 72 degrees with under 40% humidity in the summers). Hoping someone out there has an idea, because I literally can't afford recovery... which is why I was backing things up so hard in the first place. I need to know if there are any ideas to force a little more life (other than cold) or to get working replacement controllers... I'm comfortable doing anything but opening the HDD itself/platter-work.