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The renewed hard drives that I bought have a "power save" feature and required me to use a special SATA power cable that I guess bypasses this feature.  This was included with the HDD, but I didn't consider that it was needed until I read reviews on Amazon.  I was able to find the disk and am re-building my parity with the upgraded 10TB HDD!

 

 

I am replacing a 3TB WD HDD with a 10TB HGST HDD (renewed from a data center pull, mostly likely).  I stopped the array, removed the original parity drive and replaced with the larger 10TB drive.  When I restarted the system, the new 10TB is not showing up as assignable and my system doesn't seem to recognize it.  I tried a 2nd 10TB HGST HDD (bought from the same source) and that doesn't show up either.

 

Here are the drives that I bought in case that matters:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DPKWLJR

 

I bought 5 of these HGST 10TB drives to upgrade my system - not off to a great start!

 

 

Edited July 13, 20232 yr by perfect

On 7/13/2023 at 12:14 AM, perfect said:

required me to use a special SATA power cable

That will work, however, it's explained more fully here. Obviously it doesn't only apply to WD.

https://forums.unraid.net/topic/73717-solutions-shucked-wd-8tb-easystore-33v-pin-issue/

 

Thank you for this post, it wasn't clear to me if it was SAS power connectors that needed this 3rd pin mod or the SATA power connector - with your update about the cable in the box (bought HGST renewed from Amazon too) - used that and my drive started to work - spent a few hours trying the drives in external docks on windows (which just seemed to work) and wondering why it wasn't working in my unraid setup - the cable in the box sorted it, so thanks for that!