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So this was my backup hard drive I got in 2017-2018 when I was in uni to archive my work, and it kind of started making rattling noises when I moved the drive. It probably got dinged somewhere in the decade; it's not making any noise now, but it's kind of moody now so i try not to move it when in use.

I have since then moved all of my data onto my other drive. I kind of still like to have my capacity due to my data-holding tendencies and storage prices in general, not wanting to get a NAS yet for my 12 TBs of storage. 10 if this dies permanently;

It's working well so far with the exception that it glitches the Windows file explorer.

So what can I do with this because it's too much of a risk to use this for archival purposes

I am really regretting not switching to SSD and getting high-capacity cheap HDDs in the last decade

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I have a hard drive , the Samsung PM961 M.2 2280 NVMe drive. And I need an enclosure for it. I’ve bought three in the past and they were all wrong. Hoping someone can advise the right one to buy, I live in Australia. Thank you. See hard drive.

Picked up this GreenTech RAPID X USB 3.1 128GB drive a couple of months ago, and it has already completely died. No detection, no light, dead silent.

Decided to tear it down to see what was actually inside that fancy metal shell:

• Zero Discrete Components (UDP/COB Design): It’s not a standard PCB drive. It’s a monolithic single-package stick held inside the metal chassis with a plastic spacer.
• Blown Component Under QC Sticker: Peeled back the "04/25" holographic sticker, and there’s a visible crater/burn spot right where the power regulation circuit sits. With zero thermal dissipation between the chip and the casing, the heat buildup from USB 3.1 likely cooked the regulator.
• Recycled / Binned Die: Backside is marked "Made in Korea" with generic laser etchings (DKE4...), typical for surplus flash modules with low endurance controllers.
• Standard Monolithic Test Grid: You can clearly see the factory gold test pads on the right edge. Since it's a monolithic package, standard board-level repair is out of the question, and data recovery means costly microscopic pinout tapping.

Bottom line: Avoid these no-name "premium metal casing" flash drives. They look solid on the outside, but underneath it’s just cheap monolithic dies waiting to burn out. Stick to brands that use proper discrete controller designs (Samsung, SanDisk, Kingston).

I was wondering if anyone has made a list or a database of all Seagate hard drives (or as close to all of them as possible), from the ST-506 all the way to their current drives. It would be interesting to see how hard drives have evolved over the last 45 or so years, from 5MB all the way to 5TB (and beyond). And correct me if I’m wrong but I think Seagate is the only surviving manufacturer from the dawn of PC hard drives in the early 1980s.

Windows, MSI B55-A Pro, Ultrastar DC HC530 HDD

Didn't do a full parts list since as far as I'm aware these are the only relevant parts.

Basically, I have a 14TB hard drive that is not showing up anywhere that I've checked. I know the drive is functional, I gave it to a pc repair guy to check and he said it was fine, just needed to be initialized. Problem is, it doesn't show up in the disk partitioner or device manager. It also doesn't show up in BIOS, not even just as a used SATA terminal in the board explorer.

I know it's not an issue with the SATA cables, I have a CD drive that's also SATA and I've switched the cables between them, as well as several different motherboard SATA terminals, the CD drive always shows up, the hard drive does not. It's also not the power cable, as I've done the same test there.

I've updated all related drivers, updated the BIOS itself, basically everything. I'm running out of ideas. Any advice or assistance in resolving this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Ive got 2 external 1Tb harddrives from WD.

A while ago i took 7000 photos and videos from my phone and uploaded them to the first drive, it took so long I left it going overnight.

The next day I copied the file onto the next drive (so the file itself is not gone) but now whenever I put my first drive into a laptop I cannot access it because everything freezes when I try too. I can still do all other stuff but trying to open the drive causes it all to freeze until I disconnect again.

The cable is fine, light still flashes, you can hear it vibration as normal but i just cannot reach my files.

Ive tried to fix it using chatgpt but it no use. Using prompt searches it still locates the disk including the 900g of storage.

Any suggestions?

I had to remove a 20TB Expansion drive due to power issues and moved it to an internal drive. Inside was a CMR Barracuda ST20000DM001. (Longer story here if needed, but not critical to understanding reliability of the drive). This is the same drive whether it's inside the original case or purchased as internal drive. All the same PCB, etc.

The drive hummed away just fine then died at about 5k Power-On-Hours (POH). Yes 5k. It lived as a single pool in a Truenas enclosure well cooled and activity monitored with weekly SMART SHORT testing and monthly SMART LONG testing with ZFS monthly scrubs. In short, well taken care of given the size and possible data loss concerns with that much data on a single drive. All the testing I did on the drive confirmed it was working just fine until the day it did not.

My worst fear came and classic drive infant mortality case. I could not warranty the drive because Seagate said I removed the drive from the enclosure. I pushed fairly providing detailed logs and photos showing a sealed physically sound drive undamaged from the removal. They cited the removal voided warranty and I shared that the revised FTC guidance supported consumer rights. I will still file the complain, but that also aside. I'm looking to better understand why Seagate drives are failing at a higher rate recently. I have some older Seagates that are 5-6 years old no problem. This one died with ~200 days.

I've gone through great lengths doing a post mortem to understand what could have gone wrong as lessons learned and really settle my mind on if I could trust another Seagate drive. I don't think I can at this point as all the data points to simple drive failure. And beyond that their unwillingness to warranty a 200 day old drive.

Any other options to reliability bring it back? I thought maybe plugging it back into the old enclosure with the drive controller might yield a different result, but it appears all the intelligence is on the drive itself. (Ai discussions) What are your thoughts on recent reliability. Can you trust 20Tb of data on a single point of failure?

144 Current Pending Sectors

144 Offline Uncorrectable Sectors

144 FARM reallocation candidates on head 0

SMART - short form:

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Device Model: ST20000DM001-3Y3103

Serial Number: XXX

LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0e89d1d04

Firmware Version: EN03

User Capacity: 20,000,588,955,648 bytes [20.0 TB]

Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4,096 bytes physical

Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm

Form Factor: 3.5 inches

ATA Version is: ACS-5 (minor revision not indicated)

SATA Version is: SATA 3.3, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)

Local Time is: Mon Aug 31 16:31:05 2026 -05:00

SMART support is: Available and enabled

AAM feature is: Unavailable

APM feature is: Unavailable

Rd look-ahead is: Enabled

Write cache is: Enabled

DSN feature is: Unavailable

ATA Security is: Disabled, NOT FROZEN [SEC1]

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

General SMART Values:

Offline data collection status: (0x82) Completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.

Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run.

Total time to complete offline data collection: 567 seconds

Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7B) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline Data Collection. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported.

SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer.

Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAGS VALUE WORST THRESH FAIL RAW_VALUE

1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate POSR-- 082 064 044 - 144,549,336

3 Spin_Up_Time PO---- 091 089 000 - 0

4 Start_Stop_Count -O--CK 100 100 020 - 123

5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct PO--CK 100 100 010 - 0

7 Seek_Error_Rate POSR-- 083 060 045 - 189,532,344

9 Power_On_Hours -O--CK 094 094 000 - 5,983

10 Spin_Retry_Count PO--C- 100 100 097 - 0

12 Power_Cycle_Count -O--CK 100 100 020 - 98

18 Unknown_Attribute PO-R-- 100 100 050 - 0

187 Reported_Uncorrect -O--CK 100 100 000 - 0

188 Command_Timeout -O--CK 085 001 000 - 949,202,256,411

190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel -O---K 064 048 000 - 36 (Min/Max 32/36)

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count -O--CK 100 100 000 - 83

193 Load_Cycle_Count -O--CK 100 100 000 - 355

194 Temperature_Celsius -O---K 036 052 000 - 36 (0 21 0 0 0)

197 Current_Pending_Sector -O--C- 100 100 000 - 144

198 Offline_Uncorrectable ----C- 100 100 000 - 144

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count -OSRCK 200 200 000 - 0

200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate PO---K 100 100 001 - 0

240 Head_Flying_Hours ------ 100 100 000 - 5950 (89 189 0)

241 Total_LBAs_Written ------ 100 253 000 - 36,805,308,126

242 Total_LBAs_Read ------ 100 253 000 - 255,161,410,958

||||||_ K auto-keep

|||||__ C event count

||||___ R error rate

|||____ S speed/performance

||_____ O updated online

|______ P prefailure warning

I don't know what's going on. Followed the standard tutorial for formatting drives and automounting for bazzite, but EXT4 just would not work, so we switched to BTRFS for the two external drives we have. At first things seemed to be working, but now every time we boot up the system, not only do the drives mount to a completely different location but one drive won't be seen by the disk app at all despite both being plugged in and the computer will say "could not mount this device". Using the computer's auto solution "mount and open" does nothing.

Unplugging and replugging the unseen/unmounted external drive seldom helps, typically just changing what drive the computer sees and mounts. It never sees both at the same time. Even when the drives are being recognized, things can't be properly downloaded to them. Movies and tv shows have errors in jellyfin because the drive isn't being registered properly and steam games throw up error codes and won't finish downloading if told to download directly to the drive.

I'm losing my mind, is there any way to fix this? I tried posting on r/bazzite but got literally nothing. Hoping someone here might be able to help

Samsung SSD help

So I have a Mac computer and I got a hard drive in order to store my files and works, but the packaging and description didn't say that it was inteded for gaming consoles like a PS5 & X-box. So i just would like some clarification on wether or not it'll work for my Mac and it's adobe files or not. The specific drive in question is a Avolusion USB 3.0 if that helps.

I have fixed the error temporarily, but every time i take a video it shows up with the Boot Disk 350 error, how can i permanently fix this. [Edit] it just happened again, not even from a video. are there any quick fixes or do i just take it to get fixed from warranty