Recent content by Rtorbs

Cheers pal, was defo far more frustrating than it should have been and certainly more than I anticipated ha

Final update, The WD reds arrived and work absolutely fine! Still don't know wtf happened but heyho, I've lost a few TB of media but I've finally been able to put the media centre together and sort it out. Ill no doubt stick about as fancy doing an ncase m1 gaming build to replace my current...

Thanks for your time on this. Power spike whilst possible is unlikely as I only connected a single drive initially on the new rig, figured id check first.....then when that didn't display i went through the others. I suppose i could have done something to them whilst removing from the old rig...

Right tried the tape (again....) defo doesn't work lol FML Without sounding like a douche spending 80 quid on another psu to ruie it out seems like a sensible solution right now, I'm kinda thinking my time is more important than my money

FFS lol The drives have been placed on the worktop after taking out. They haven't been dropped or misshandled. If this psu issue isn't a thing then why specifically do the psus in question appear on the list of those psus not working? Also the drives don't spin up on the media centre or on my...

Right first of all cheers for the heads up over on the datahaorders reddit sub, both my media centre PC and and Games rig (the second machine i checked the drives on) appear to have PSUs that are impacted by the whole 3.3v thing (450SFX and RM850 - technically 850 isnt on but the 650 and 750 so...

I've tried it against 2 different psu..... Tbh it shouldn't be this difficult. I've bought and installed countless drives over the decades and never ran into this. All I'm getting from this is Samsung make better more compatible drives lol.

And that's fine but doesn't explain why a new drive doesn't work with new psu and cables

Right so here is where I'm at, I'm going to summarize what I've tried as concisely as possible. 3 Drives do not function: 1 x 2Tb Seagate Barracude S/N: (Z1E5GG2E) Model: ST2000DM001 - This drive is old 1 x 2Tb WD Green S/N: WMAWZ0109194 Model: WD20EARX - This drive is also old 1 x 2Tb WD...

Thanks for the detailed response. All the drives were retail drives, I've not removed from an extremal hdd drive or anything but this power issue is possibly something however as mentioned in other posts I've got a seagate that's behaving the same way, it's old though so maybe it's also...

I did change the psu yes. Interesting video. Is this only for WD though? as I have a seagate that's behaving the same way. It's probably around the same age and isn't new certainly 5 plus years old.

I've just checked and yes the old sata connectors had an orange (5 cable) however the new psu cables are also 5 cable but all black?

Thanks for the offer pal but I've literally just bought one as I'm running out of ideas lol. So the drives not recognised on the media centre are also not recognised using the caddy connected to another rig. All I'm getting is : Removable (G:) No Media Even the brand new unformatted is the...

Mate I'm just at a loss. Defo didn't touch them whilst on and defo didn't drop them either lol

So I think this is just down to the fact that I didn't initially connect the Samsung. On the 4 way sata connector the SSD was always in spot 1 (or 0) and therefore only 3 others were connected of which I think I didn't initially connect the Samsung. The liklihood is that its always worked, this...