I have an older server chassis i use for a media center.. i do not believe it supports newer drives that have the pin 3 issue ive been reading about..
I'm puzzled by this "newer feature" as i havent ran into the issue thus far.. i have quite a few hard drives in the backplane slots.. mostly 4 and 8tb drives from about 2 years ago.
What i have done now is purchased an 8TB elements usb drive that i was going to shuck and put in this media center server (flex raid).. the drive inside appears to be a white label wd80emaz-00m9aa0 according to crystal disk info.
Given that I guess it has this issue.
Its my understanding one direct workaround is the molex to sata connector.
I read about one case of these connectors causing a fire (maybe a fluke or human error unsure).
I did see one other workaround of just snipping off the 3rd pin on the drive itself.
Still unsure how i managed to not run into this.. is this also the case with Any new drive purchased or only certain ones (my older 8tb units are seagates i think).
Has anyone had any experience with this issue and workarounds?
Thanks in advance
I'm puzzled by this "newer feature" as i havent ran into the issue thus far.. i have quite a few hard drives in the backplane slots.. mostly 4 and 8tb drives from about 2 years ago.
What i have done now is purchased an 8TB elements usb drive that i was going to shuck and put in this media center server (flex raid).. the drive inside appears to be a white label wd80emaz-00m9aa0 according to crystal disk info.
Given that I guess it has this issue.
Its my understanding one direct workaround is the molex to sata connector.
I read about one case of these connectors causing a fire (maybe a fluke or human error unsure).
I did see one other workaround of just snipping off the 3rd pin on the drive itself.
Still unsure how i managed to not run into this.. is this also the case with Any new drive purchased or only certain ones (my older 8tb units are seagates i think).
Has anyone had any experience with this issue and workarounds?
Thanks in advance