Seagate Compute HDD problems

[IAmATeaf]

I’ve got an 8Tb Compute drive in one of my desktops which stopped working a few days ago. Loads of event log entries associated with issues accessing the drive and although I could see the top level folders trying to browse into the folders would result in an error.

Restarted the desktop and no real change, tried to offline the drive but then I couldn’t bring it back online even after another restart.

So I pulled the drive and temp replaced it with a WD 2Tb drive.

Today I plugged the drive into another desktop and the damned thing works! No SMART errors, can browse into the folders and running SeaTools shows no issues at all. Currently running a long test which is some 15% of the way through.

Anybody seen something similar or what could the issue have been? Wondering if it might be heat related? But at the moment I sort of stumped and don’t know if I can trust the drive.

 

[theforce]

If the SMART doesn't display any errors and the long test comes up with no issues l would check if the issue might be a defective SATA cable. You might try a different SATA port as well if the cable isn't the issue.

 

[IAmATeaf]

Yes I’m beginning to suspect the SATA cable. When I opened the desktop up I did notice that the cable at the motherboard end was sort of being forced to one side by another cable. Didn’t think much of it at the time and just simply rearranged the cable so that it was stress free.

I left a long test running overnight, checked this morning and it reports that the test was aborted, no other errors that I can see and again the drive SMART info shows everything is fine.

Just kicked off the long test again.

So it’s either the cable or the drive plays up in a strange way when hot but not too sure at the mo.