Re: Dead external Seagate 5 TB portable HDD from 2020 (ordered at that year IIRC)?
nospam <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Apr 2023 22:33:11 -0400
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.periphs.hdd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <050420232233115865%[email protected]> |
In article <[email protected]>, Char Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >It seems like my Seagate 5 TB portable backup HDD (Model: SRD0NF1; P/N: > >2N1AP8-500; 2020; 3 partitions [encrypted APFS + exFAT + encrypted old > >HFS+(journal)) just died. My 4 computers (2 MBPs (2012 Mojave & 2020's Big > >Sur) + 2 PCs [Linux/Debian bullseye and 64-bit Windows 10]) don't see the > >drive anymore. > > I would attempt to remove the drive from its enclosure so that I could > test the drive by itself, just on the possibility that the problem lies > with the enclosure rather than the drive. it's probably the drive. the bridge rarely fails.