Has my hard drive died?

citycm · 31 Oct 2009 at 15:12

I have an IcyBox external enclosure that houses 2 x SATA Desktop hard drives (currently has one WD and one Seagate). The enclosure uses JBOD so that my system sees both hard drives as seperate drives rather than one.

However, one of my hard drives is no longer showing up on the system, while the other is. I have tried removing the working hard drive and swapping the connectors, etc, but I still can't get my system to see the one drive.

Can you suggest anything? Should I try plugging this directly into my Internal SATA connector?

Thanks in advance

dr4g0nf1y · 1 Nov 2009 at 14:08

yewah there's nothing wrong with doing that. As soon as you pop it in it should come up with a different drive letter so if it does then obviously there's something wrong with the enclosure.

Error check with hdtune or something similar again if it works internally.

Toastor · 1 Nov 2009 at 14:16

Sometimes the term JBOD is used when the controller uses 'drive spanning'. Drive spanning is where the HDD's are combined together and treated as a single disk by the operating system. It sounds to me like this is what your IcyBox is doing. You'll know if this is the case by checking the capacity that your system is showing for the drive.

citycm · 5 Nov 2009 at 18:30

Toastor said:
Sometimes the term JBOD is used when the controller uses 'drive spanning'. Drive spanning is where the HDD's are combined together and treated as a single disk by the operating system. It sounds to me like this is what your IcyBox is doing. You'll know if this is the case by checking the capacity that your system is showing for the drive.

The IcyBox has been working fine up to now. I've got one drive in it (that still works) which is partitioned and this drive and upto now I've had 3 drive letters.

I haven't had chance to check the drive internally yet but will get round to it this evening.