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...
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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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