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Indeed i just found out about this and was just testing it and sure enough, covering the 3.3V pin means the drive powers on and works as expected. Not sure how comfortable I am leaving two drives with tape on their power connectors running unattended 24/7 so I might return them but at least i know what went wrong, thanks !

I just received two refurbed 12To HGST 0F29596 drives meant to replace two smaller/failing drives in my server. I replaced one of the drives this morning but booting up Unraid afterwards the drive was not showing in the GUI. I noticed that the drive didn't seem to be powered at all. I tried plugging it with a different SATA and power connector but nothing changed. Went into the BIOS and no drive appeared connected on the corresponding SATA Port, so it doesn't seem to be an Unraid specific issue. However connecting the drive on a windows machine with an external USB bay resulted in it seemingly working without issue. That is also the case for the second drive, works perfect on windows via USB but isn't detected and doesn't power on in my Unraid machine. I tried researching the issue and tweaking a few settings in the BIOS but to no avail. Any ideas what the issue could be ? Motherboard is an MSI MAG B560M BAZOOKA, tried connecting the drive directly on the MB or on my PCI SATA expansion card. Also enabled SATA Hot Plug on all ports.

Well thanks for the input ! The disk is still under warranty so i'll replace it and try to get a refund/replacement, seems like the safest way to go.

I didn't reboot so the parity info should be there. penguin-02-diagnostics-20240124-1416.zip

Where can i find those ?

So yesterday I noticed a SMART warning on my second parity drive "Seek Error Rate". Looking at the SMART attributes the value was at 43 and under "FAILED" it said something like "DISK FAILING". I was a bit surprised as that drive is less than a year old but still, i ordered a replacement right away with the intention of returning the drive. This morning though the warning disappeared from the array screen and the SMART status is "Healthy". However the SMART attributes show the Seek Error Rate as Offline. Running a short and extended SMART test on the drive result both in a test that ends in a few seconds only with an "Unknown Failure". SMART reports below. So since I don't quite get everything about how SMART attributes work, I wanted to make sure : that drive is gonna die right ? I should replace it ASAP rather than keep using it ? Thanks ! Edit : Didn't think to mention it but in case it's relevant, the SMART error first appeared during a parity check that completed last night. The check apparently found 4108 errors wich is the first time in 2 years that any errors was found. I assumed that was because I just replaced my flash drive after the first one failed but maybe that is a sign of disk failure as well ? TOSHIBA_HDWG21C_82U0A003FPBG-20240124-1034.txt