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Ian Bunting it works
#hardware #westerndigital #NAS
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Glad to see that worked.
I was pretty sure that was the issue, but it is nice to get validation.
I may consider doing the same at some point too.
For anyone else, here is the context.
Shucking is the removal of drives that came in an external enclosure, and putting them inside a PC.
The issue is they are sometimes drives made for enterprise, NAS use etc that failed certification for those, but work for lower standards.
They can have a safety, or power saving feature that when there is power on the 3.3V… See More
line, the drive enters a reset loop.
Enclosures therefore do not provide that voltage line to the drive, as it isn't actually required to power it.
But the standard SATA power connector in a PC does, and so the drives will sometimes fail to function in a desktop PC, not even appearing in the BIOS.
The fix is to disconnect the 3.3V line to the drive, as Clay did in this example with an insulating tape (Kapton) over the relevant pin on the power connector.
Useful to either repurpose a drive, or to allow recovery when some other part of an enclosure fails, but the drive is otherwise working.
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Yeah I am officially done... I can't strip them together over USB because it sees them as the same general name from a hardware perspective... I can't even do 2 SEPARATE pools cause of that. The only way prob to do that is figure out the right one I can put into my comp and then they would probably be seen as 2 separate drives that can be combined. That is absolutely ridiculous...
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well, of course......
An internal SATA RAID inside an old (retired) PC would be probably the best and cheapest solution.
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Or... I WON'T be adding both of the 8TB to their own pool... For some reason ONE of them WON'T show up connected to the computer directly. I swapped SATA cables, I swapped the power plug, I've tried one connected directly to the mobo SATA the other to the pci-express SATA I have. This one drive WON'T boot with a direct connect. THIS is even after testing on my computers HDD connection tool to verify it works, and even reformatting, and resetting the GPT on it. No matter what I do it WON'T show up… See More
on a direct connect... ...
So my thoughts on this now is use the 1 drive that is showing up as a 2nd redundancy. So I have 2 drives that could fail before the RAID itself would loose the data... NOT what I wanted but okay...
#Hardware
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I just pulled it and direct connected it outside the HDD cage. Yeah the drive will NOT power up on initial turn on. Again VERIFIED connected to my external USB HDD plug in the thing works. it just WON'T work directly on a board and power supply. Weird AF... Also I cannot find anything online about this issue.
Also I did transfer data off it yesterday without issue. So it is not as if the drive was dying from what I see.
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So I shucked my WD MyBooks. They will go into the NAS into a raid 0 config to keep things backed up to them still from TrueNAS. Just putting back onto the NAS some files still lol.
#hardware #software
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