sephallen Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 (edited) Hi everyone! I recently purchased a refurbished HGST 0F18370 6TB Helium drive for my unRAID server, but I am unable to get it to show in the BIOS. I have an ASUS KGPE-D16 on the latest BIOS and I already have a 4TB SAS drive working in it alongside a lot of different sized SATA drives (1 - 4TB). However, I cannot get the 6TB to be detected at all. I have tried different ports and toggled between IDE and AHCI but with no success. Am I missing something? Or is the drive perhaps dead? Thanks in advanced! Edited January 6, 2020 by sephallen Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 Google "wd 3.3v SATA", it might be that. Quote Link to comment
sephallen Posted December 24, 2019 Author Share Posted December 24, 2019 I'll give it a go and report back, thanks! Quote Link to comment
sephallen Posted December 28, 2019 Author Share Posted December 28, 2019 Unfortunately, I have tried using Kapton tape on just pin 3 and pins 1, 2 and 3 but I am still unable to detect the drive in the BIOS. I am actually using a Logic Case SC-4320, which has hot swap drive bays (5 bays are powered by a single molex connector) and from what I can tell, molex isn't affected by the 3.3v issue, even though it ultimately ends up being a SATA power connector. Is there anything else I can try? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted December 28, 2019 Share Posted December 28, 2019 Drive can just be dead, do you have another PC you could try it on? Quote Link to comment
sephallen Posted December 28, 2019 Author Share Posted December 28, 2019 I don't have any other machines that support SAS drives sadly Thanks for all your help, I have contacted the seller and if I get it working somehow I'll post an update here. Quote Link to comment
sephallen Posted January 6, 2020 Author Share Posted January 6, 2020 The seller replaced the drive for me and the replacement seems to be working perfectly. Thanks again for all the help! Quote Link to comment
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