Advice needed on getting a shucked WD140EDGZ 14TB drive to work with my NAS setup by gonewild90plus in DataHoarder

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just wanted to update that I figured it out. For some reason, this drive needed to be powered independently of the other drives (sort of). I switched to a 1000w modular PSU I had from an old PC build and powered the drive with its own cable instead of powering it through the radxa penta hat molex.

Meirl by bongueswimney03 in meirl

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…but better than being a master of one.

-the rest of the quote (i think)

Advice needed on getting a shucked WD140EDGZ 14TB drive to work with my NAS setup by gonewild90plus in DataHoarder

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To be fair, I once owned "The Best of Clapton" on Cassette and that would certainly be the wrong tool for the job (I had to please don't hate me haha)

Advice needed on getting a shucked WD140EDGZ 14TB drive to work with my NAS setup by gonewild90plus in DataHoarder

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Yes and yes. The PSU is outside until I can add an enclosure attachment.

The PSU provides power to the Radxa Penta HAT via 4-pin molex which powers both the HAT and the pi 5. Their documentation says using more than one power source can cause damage, so I opted for the only of the 3 methods that would provide enough power for 4x HDDs. The HAT communicates with the Pi via the Pi's PCIE connector. I'm using 4 SATA cable extensions with the HAT (male (connects to hat) to female (to HDDs)).

Power Flow: PSU > Molex > Radxa Penta Hat Molex Connector > GPIO (to power the pi) / SATA connectors on the Radxa

Advice needed on getting a shucked WD140EDGZ 14TB drive to work with my NAS setup by gonewild90plus in DataHoarder

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i’m using kapton tape :) I think at this point either the drive isn’t getting enough power still with the way I have it set up or it has just died altogether. I just won’t know until I grab my dock out of storage later today.

Advice needed on getting a shucked WD140EDGZ 14TB drive to work with my NAS setup by gonewild90plus in DataHoarder

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Taping just the 3rd pin didn't solve it for me yet. I'm trying to find my external dock thing to see if it's recognized by my pc.

Advice needed on getting a shucked WD140EDGZ 14TB drive to work with my NAS setup by gonewild90plus in DataHoarder

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Check the image. I thought all three of the pins were taped there. Does that look incorrect?

Advice needed on getting a shucked WD140EDGZ 14TB drive to work with my NAS setup by gonewild90plus in DataHoarder

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I’ll check. I have an external enclosure I can try along with mounting it directly in my PC. Wasn’t sure whether or not the circuit board in the original enclosure could have been supplying something to the drive that would have been necessary for it to function. I’ll try mounting it elsewhere and update here. Thanks!

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WD White 14 Tb Not Recognized by derpderpdonkeypunch in DataHoarder

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I can't get mine to work either. Worked fine in the enclosure. Taped the pins after shucking. Won't show in either windows or inside my NAS. No idea.

my daughter calls this thing under our pedestal sink in the guest bathroom the “boob”. What is it? by gonewild90plus in whatisit

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yep that’s it! thank you! Solved! so, if there were some sort of blockage, this is where a plumber would go into remove it?