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#1958195 - 02/04/25 06:54 AM Killing my hard drives
zoomduck Offline
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Registered: 07/20/02
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Loc: Martinez CA
My 2480HD keeps freezing. I've tried 4 seagate hard drives, Three of them made in 2004 one made in 2018.
They work for about and hour and then freeze.
I'm thinking it could be heat like the fan in the caddy is not working.
Anyone had this problem?

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#1958586 - 02/06/25 12:22 PM Re: Killing my hard drives [Re: zoomduck]
dkfackler Offline
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Registered: 04/24/06
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Loc: Coventry, OH, planet Thulcandr...
The HDD fan is really tiny. I wonder whether it does much other than make noise. As an experiment, you could remove the metal drive door and introduce additional airflow with a hairdyer set to “cool”. The noise will drive you nuts, but this is just a test.

Can you successfully restart the machine after the freeze? I’m assuming you can’t perform the standard shutdown and must just kill the power.

Just grasping at straws: have you changed the battery in recent memory? It probably won’t make any difference, but if can’t hurt to have fresh battery.

Unplug/replug the drive cabling at both ends. You might have something so simple as a sub-standard plug connection.

This could be a capacitor issue. Aging caps can cause all sorts of strange behavior.

Are the drives truly dead? Have they any signs of life if connected to a PC?

I am now out of ideas.

-~dk


Edited by dkfackler (02/06/25 12:24 PM)
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