So I'm dipping my feet into Unraid and cannot get my first disk on board

Its an empty Seagate Exos drive coming from a cheap QNAP NAS. Its not visible on my new machine in BIOS, connected directly to the mobo. I have tried different SATA ports and cables. Its audibly spinning up when powering on, and if I put it back in the NAS its detected just fine again (thought i had bricked it!)

I'm thinking of the following issues:

- Removing disks from QNAP needs some special treatment

- Compatibility with my new machines motherboard and the disk

Any thoughts or insights welcome.

Disk model: Seagate Exos 7E10 ST8000NM017B

New machine: Lenovo LOQ 17irb8 (pre-built)

Edited March 11, 20251 yr by BobbyTables
Clarifying the post title

If it's not detected in the BIOS, it also won't be detected by Unraid, but can't think of a reason if you hear the disk spinning up, and it still works on the QNAP, try with a different PC if you have one.

 

 

Might be the 3.3V issue

 

https://www.nickearl.net/2019/05/14/how-to-fix-3-3v-power-issues-with-hard-drives/

Just following up on my own topic here for future googlers. Its solved by not connecting directly to the motherboard

It's not the 3.3v issue that i see a lot when googling these Exos disks. The symptom would be reversed (not powering up, while mine is powering up). Further the sata cables i had did not have the 3.3v line on them (power source is a mini 4x port on the mobo)

I have gotten the disk to work, althogh not directly connected to the mobo but via a 1x PCI-e to 4x sata board with this controller: https://www.asmedia.com.tw/product/A58yQC9Sp5qg6TrF/58dYQ8bxZ4UR9wG5

It's still a mystery to me why this certain disk model would not work - i blame Lenovo