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Hello! I have a problem with my seagate barracuda drive.The sound it makes is strange and i am not sure if the hdd is dying. It started like a year ago, when i had a cryptovirus then i formated it amd it started working properly again. One month ago the drive started doing this again. Every time...

I can’t access my seagate 4tb external hardrive. I have two connected to my computer, one works one does not. I’ve tried swapping the cables, ports etc, every time one drive works and the other doesn’t. I’ve tried restarting my pc, turning of the power completely, using all antivirus software...

I have a Seagate Backup Plus 4TB external drive that recently stopped working. A lot of solutions online suggest that it could be a problem with the USB controller. I want to take it out of the enclosure and connect it via SATA to my PC. But, the drive is still under the warranty period. I tried...

I'm trying to install this drive to a Drobo 810N (NAS). The SATA connector is different from usual, and has a piece of plastic between the power & data sections, so it can't plug in to any SATA cables I have, which require a gap. What gives? Is this a new interface, and what can I do to use...

So i recently built a new computer and currently i'm using a NVMe Corsair Force mp510 as my main system drive and also i have an old SATA 2 hdd plugged in and a new 2TB Seagate Barracude drive. When i tried to Userbenchmak it, the results told me that the new seagate drive was ram caching but i...

I have attached a short video / gif of my computer detecting my external hard drive (lettered G) but when I click on the external hard drive, it refuses to open, the screen just remains blank or frozen and the cursor just keeps rolling until I pull the external hard drive out of the port. I...

I'm having issues with My mobile Seagate 5TB external HDD. I used it on My Xbox for a while before upgrading, now I want to connect to My router but for some reason there was multiple partitions. I formatted the hdd but now there is 3 unallocated partitions, what did I do wrong? 1 of them...

New AMD B450M build, have an SSD with my OS (W7 Pro) and this strange 2TB Seagate 7200RPM HD for data. The drive will disconnect intermittently, though it has never disconnected while transferring large files or while running a checkdisk or SMART test (Passes both of those 100%). However, I'll...

Hi, I'd like to know some relevant differences between this drives besides MTBF. 7E8 model ST8000NM0055 (MTBF 2,000,000 hr) 5E8 model ST8000AS0003 (MTBF 800,000 hr) 5E8 model is formerly known as an Archive HDD, both are 8TB so obviously I want to use them for archiving purposes. 7E8 seems...

Hello Everyone, I have SEAGATE Desktop Festplatte Expansion 3 TB »STEB3000200« that i bought less than one year ago, the hard drive sometimes disconnects when copping files. I have tried to contact Seagate in Germany per Email 2 Times , first time before about 3 weeks and the second time a...

I recently upgraded my graphics card to a GTX 1070 hoping to solve this this problem but no luck. Every game I play my frame rate will go from 90-130 fps to about 16. Then it'll shoot back up and repeat in 15 seconds or so. Any game I play. Like from Minecraft to Star Wars Fallen Order. And my...

I purchased two of these harddrive. The seagate firecuda gaming 2 TB solid state hybrid drive. I got two M2 I am also using but I also wanted add something on the fly just for gaming. Are these decent? Thanks in advance...

So here is my problem. I recently bought a Seagate 8tb expansion drive. I work in video production and this will be used as a backup drive. When i first plugged in...there were no clicking noise. I immediately started to copy 2tb to it and some clicking sounds appeared. They weren't...

Hello, my 4TB Seagate drive failed recently. I am looking to buy a new one. I talked to a data recovery expert and he told me that recent hard disks (2017-) are less durable than previous hard disks and that no matter which company's hard disk I buy the failure rates aren't going to better to...

I recently purchased a new Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD and just installed it today. When I turned on my PC I noticed a weird sound that happens every few seconds when the drive is idle. Seagates Seatools has not found any issues and as soon as the drive is active, the sound stops. Does anyone know...

Today out of curiosity i ran a health check on my SSD & HDDs and my 3 months old 2TB 7200rpm Seagate HDD is showing two warnings: -Pending sector count: 8 -Uncorrectable Sector Count: 8 The reason why i bought this hard drive in the first place is because the one i was using before was 6 years...

So I'm planning to purchase for my computer a 4TB Seagate IronWolf for backup not for booting from it and I'm wondering if this will work. My CPU is an intel i7 860 and my motherboard is an ASROCK H55 with SATA 2. On it i have a primary SSD (Windows Boot Drive) and the new Seagate will be...

Since my recent post about my Seagate 3TB 7200RPM drive dying, I'm looking for a replacement, either 3 or 4TB. I found this https://www.amazon.ca/Blue-Desktop-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B013HNYV8I/ref=pd_ybh_a_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=P4T358SDVKV5TDQNZ88Q WD Blue 4TB for a good price, but I'm...

So like 4 days ago my HDD wasn't showing up in Windows one time when I turned it on, so I shutdown, checked the cables and turned it on again and it showed up. So I thought I was all good. Then it happened again, and was really slow to use. So I checked SMART with cryataldiskinfo and it said...

I have a Seagate 10TB 3.5" drive which I was using as a large single drive to copy the contents of my 8.5TB RAID5 volume, so I could back this single drive up to the cloud and get away from using a RAID array. I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 on the machine. Drive is formatted NTFS and is...

Hi Tried searching here and online can't seem to get a proper answer My 3yr old Seagate 2tb st2000dm006 just died :/ Need a replacement. Looking at these ST200DM008 or the TOSHIBA P300 Or maybe the ST200DM006 All are 2tb 7200 rpm. And cost wise the same Never used a Toshiba drive before...

when i copy files to my Samsung external hdd the transfer speed is about 3.8 mbps and that's a very slow speed, but when i copy files from external hdd to my pc, the speed is quietly good, about 14 mbps. How can i fix this issue knowing that i recently bought this used external hdd it appears as...

after manually restarting computer (from cabinet restart button), then HDD (WD 2tb hdd, not in warranty) not showed up in boot menu. (it showed blank space in the boot order) (using gigabyte 250m d3h) I installed windows 10 on other hard disk and tried different things Need help. I checked in...

My problem started a few weeks back. When I boot my computer it sometimes gets stuck on the "press del to enter BIOS window" screen and won't start. If I then enter my BIOS it can't dectect my harddrive. If I then exit the BIOS my computer will boot to windows on function normally expected that...

Hi, I have a HDD from Seagate (ST1000DM003) I've had this hdd for 6 years ; it's power on time is 6730 hours. I was using HDD Sentinel for monitoring this HDD like always but suddenly every thing on windows freezed and the HDD Sentinel showed 12% health with 8 Reallocated Sectors Count and 240...

Hello, please recommend which one to choose: 1) Seagate STEL6000100, 2) Seagate STEB6000403, 3) WDBWLG0060HBK-NESN, 4) WDBBGB0060HBK ? The disk will be connected to the PS4, the main criterion will be low heat.

i have initialized and formatted a brand new Seagate 12tb nas Ironwolf drive in an external enclosure and now can see it available on my windows 10 computer in the "This PC" section. I downloaded Seagate Toolkit software , installed it, when i run it as administrator it says "no device...

I need a replacement for a Seagate Barracuda ST3300831A external hard drive. Specs are below Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 Firmware 2.04 300Gbyte ST3300831A Model Anyone have any idea where I could look for a full replacement (case and packaging, or parts just enough to plug into a computer)?

Yesterday there was a power dip in my area and my UPS couldn't keep up as my PC was under full load. Upon restarting it booted into the recovery environment and failed to repair the problem. I then inserted my Win10 boot media to try repair that way, also failed. I then decided to boot to a...

Hi i'm tryign to create a Host Protected Area or set a max LBA on my 2TB Seagate st2000lm007 to make it compatible with the PS3, the problem is that everytime i try to do that i can't find the option to do it (HDAT2) "Flashing to 4.46 OFW and reducing 2Tb hard drive to 3633537126 sectors via...

I recently found bad sector in my 7200 rpm desktop hard disk so I replace it with my 5400 rpm laptop hard disk.After that Desktop is almost unusable.I take so much time to respond to mouse click,everything is laggy.Even it takes 5-10minutes to open file explorer.I know 7200rpm had better...

Hi, Since about a week ago I'm not able to access my internal hard drive anymore. It's still listed under "My PC", but it isn't showing the size of the hard drive, nor is it showing its name. If I double click on it, I get the message that the hard drive isn't accessible due to an I/O error. I...

Hi guys! It is my another day trying to figure out the answer x) I hope you can help me. So like 1 month ago my 6yo Seagate 1TB HDD 7200rpm drive started to work in unintended ways. When I was playing any games installed at it, they were crashing after seconds or after hours. Depended on...

Hello, I just got my NAS complete and hopefully will run for more than a day before going offline like last time. Specs: Intel Pentium N3530 Quad Core 8gb DDR3 HP S700 120GB SATA III SSD set as Windows Storage share because I couldn't figure out how to make it a cache drive for the HDD. Seagate...

So I've decided to replace my dying Seagate Pipeline HDD, and this is something I didnt think I'd encounter, but the HDD space has left me in confusion. I'm looking at 2TB drives on a tight budget, and primarily gonna use it for gaming/media storage. Already using an SSD for boot. Reliability is...

TLDR; I thought I broke my hard drive but now it works again! Hello! I was transferring some data from an external hard drive to my (C:) drive. When I was moving data from the drive, the power in my house went out. When I tried to restart my computer again after the power went out it did not...

Suddenly when i turn on my pc , something poped up reboot and select proper boot device , insert boot media in selected boot device. I went to bios and hard drive not detected ! I tried to unplug the cable plug it again and same , hard drive is spinning ! I tried to to replace the cable but same...

I don't know what's going on, but I am having SERIOUS issues with my Seagate hard drive. A regular internal (3.5) drive that I have been using on a VERY light basis will not power on. Thought it was the enclosure, so I put it into another enclosure. Nope. Not working When I unplugged the hard...

Seagate has welcomed a brand new SSD into their Ironwolf portfolio and we have one 480GB SSD to give away in celebration of its official launch! These drives are built for NAS and include AgileArray™ firmware to keep your NAS enclosure maximized for demanding 24×7 and multi-user environments...

So I recently built a new PC, and after playing on it for about 2 months I began to hear loud noises coming from the hard drive. I figured I had a dead drive, and since Windows is on my 240Gb SSD, I didnt have any issues with replacing it. So I bought a new one and swapped it. This new one is a...