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| Thread ID: 142419 | 2016-07-01 04:49:00 | 2 EXT HDD failures - coincidence? | Bryan (147) | Press F1 |
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| 1422599 | 2016-07-01 11:14:00 | I have a Welland docking station. I pulled a drive apart and tried the docking but with no avail. I suspect that I may have plugged in a Power source to my laptop and blown the HDDs as suggested by WT. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1422600 | 2016-07-01 11:35:00 | Can you feel any vibration ie the platters spinning? | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1422601 | 2016-07-01 21:02:00 | No I am sorry to say, They are dead. I see Warehouse Stationary have WD 1.5T Externals with USB 3 for $99 so will get one today. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1422602 | 2016-07-01 21:25:00 | Have a read of this (www.tomshardware.com). Looks like it's a common prob with this hdd and the 2 TB What if you connect one at a time? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1422603 | 2016-07-06 02:37:00 | See my post #13. I have dismantled the Seagate box, removed the damaged TB HDD and replaced it with another Seagate 320G. It works perfectly so the circuit board that the drive fits into did not suffer damage from the voltage over-load, only the drive itself. Only problem is the outside box is a little loose now as the internal clips have been broken getting it apart. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1422604 | 2016-07-06 04:10:00 | Still could have been a power related problem somewhere - the chance of two drives failing exactly the same at the same time would either be from a same source or same types of fault on both drives, triggered by something. I personally had 3 Hard Drives all fail exactly the same within a week of one another, they were WD blacks -- found out they all had the same fault in them that caused the problem. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1422605 | 2016-07-07 07:55:00 | Yeah, even the power supply you are using to power the external drives... are you using the original power pack that came with them? My ex had issues like this when she muddled the power packs to 2 different external drives. Swap the power supplies around, and all good again. I actually use the plastic tab off bread bags to 'label' each of my power packs "2TB SGate" "4TB WD" etc. The plastic tab snaps over the power cable. Just write on it with a felt tip. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
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