I bought two refurbished 12 TB Seagate HDDs, installed one in my server, put the other in a USB adapter, plugged it into the server, and then let it rot there until I would eventually decide to tackle the burden of doing backups. Well, I decided that the time had come, but when I tried to mount it, I couldn’t find it. It is not detected using fdisk, but I can see it with dmesg, and it is stuck at Spinning up disk... (see [1]). But that is not all: the most frightening thing is that it makes very faint clicking sounds.

Do you think it is broken and I need to get a new one, or am I just missing something? Also, is this adapter bad, or why did it break while doing essentially nothing but sitting around? (The adapter is the SABRENT EC-DFLT-DE)

[1]:

[16073.604900] usb 2-2: new SuperSpeed USB device number 11 using xhci_hcd
[16073.617618] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=152d, idProduct=a578, bcdDevice= 1.00
[16073.617629] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[16073.617633] usb 2-2: Product: SABRENT
[16073.617636] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: SABRENT
[16073.617639] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: DD5641988396B
[16073.621358] scsi host0: uas
[16073.622070] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SABRENT                   4102 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[16073.624565] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[16087.663473] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Spinning up disk...
  • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Offhand I’d suspect a finicky adapter. Does the adapter work with other disks? Does the disk work when plugged into a server/computer directly?

    Assuming it’s the adapter being finicky - did you happen to try using other USB cables with the adapter?

    When plugging into the system - Does the dmesg output display anything else useful, any warnings or anything? I would have thought it would give you the USB drive chipset vendor/model, I didn’t think Sabrent builds their own chipsets but could be wrong.

    Also would try doing a smartctl --scan followed by a smartctl -a /dev/YOUR-EXTERNAL-DRIVE and see what comes up. (those are part of smartmontools)

    • Moritz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      I only got that one drive (and that one usb drive) and the other drive is online. I would have to shut down my system, in order to test it. I can only do that in a few days.

      When plugging into the system - Does the dmesg output display anything else useful, any warnings or anything?

      Nope, just what I posted, IIRC.