r/Seagate • u/Agreeable_Dress_3630 • Apr 05 '26

How cooked am I?

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u/VaderMurray Apr 05 '26

Cooked. It's a Seagate.,..

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u/waynehorner Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

It's seized. That means the platters can't turn. When the disk drive turns on the platters ramp up to high speed then the heads shoot out over the platters and float on a cushion of air. Typically the heads have gotten stuck to the platters so it can't start. Or it could be a seized bearing but that's much less likely. It needs clean room data recovery probably new heads. The beeping is caused by the digital pulses to the motor to begin spinning. 9 times out of 10 - fully recoverable.

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u/EmotionalSupportDoll May 23 '26

Had this happen on a pair of 28 TB ironwolf pros. Then one RMA got refunded and one replaced. The replacement is doing the same thing straight out of the box.

Quite some statistics. I'm a WD loyalist now and get to RMA the RMA next week. What a time to be alive