Has anyone opened the drive? Do you know if it has an SATA connection on it? or is it just the drive with the usb connection soldered onto it?
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It cannot. It is formed one board. All of Seagate can use for laptop and so on. They can disassemble pcb connect board
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I used it as an external drive. Even if you can take the HD out, you still need a sata connecting cable ($8.66 for 2). It has a USB-3 cable which is faster than the conventional USB-2. I wonder why you would pay the price of an external drive and use it as an internal drive, which usually costs less for the same capacity. I bought a WD 4 TB internal drive as D:
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Yep. After using it initially, I couldn't get windows to see it any more so took it apart. The drive is a Toshiba, which gets great ratings on drives. The problem with the errors could be a windows USB3 driver. Still not sure. Might re-assemble it to see if anything has changed.
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I found that I did have trouble if i tried to plug into an external USB extension and had to go directly into the computer - but it sounds like you already did that so I'm not sure. Did you try to just bring up a Windows explorer session and see if there is new drive listed?
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Strange. When it came in, I found the drive as being alone and empty. I partitionned it in three separate parts for work purposes, but it's supposed to be here! You should contact MSI!
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No, it is a bare bones drive. I ordered a SATA cable separately from amazon.
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I just checked www.wdc.com Typed in Serial Number from drive I received. Answer from WD: "The warranty for this product has expired. The product is not eligible for replacement. If you need technical assistance, please send us email." So either Seller is warranting this drive OR NO ONE IS!!! I, for one, would like to hear from the seller on this matter!
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If this is the case, what happens if the original drive fails? Can you just replace that drive or do you have to reinstall everything?
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Did you turn it on? Is it fully plugged into the drive? I had an issue with an older ISA/EISA drive not getting fully plugged in. If you are using one of the 3.5" drives you need to check to verify that it is powering up. No power means it is not working. If you hear the drive power up (you can hear it spin up) and it is fully connected is it making any other sounds like clicking? If so the drive itself may be dead. There are several tricks to try if that is the case but without more details of the issue I can't help much more.
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The device uses a standard SATA port. I personally don't really like the device and am planning on getting a better more costly version. It worked for me once...and not a couple of other times when i tried to clone with it.
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Hi D. Petitpas,I was wondering if anyone would ever reply to my post. I didn't know that these drives were shipped pre-formated and I don't think that it is listed in it's description here on Amazon. Thank you so very much for setting me straight!
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It appears to connect via USB 2.0. I do not know that it is either SATA or EIDE ... probably neither from what it says.
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Hi, This drive is virtually silent unlike my other external hard drive which makes a lot of noise when active. How quite & cool this drive operates is one of the many things I like about it. It's possible yours could be defective. Maybe you could exchange it for another?
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Suggest you contact Seagate support. Have had no issues with the drive. Am not using USB interface, connected the device using the SATA connection directly on a Pogoplug device.
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I had the same problem. I assume the micro-SATA has to be formatted before the USB cable will work. Have not had a chance to pursue further. I have 2 micro-SATA drives in a RAID1 configuration and one failed. Don't know if I pull the working drive if it can be read or not using the cable. I think I'll try replacing the bad drive with one of the micro-SATA's and see if RAID1 can restore it. End goal is to get both new micro-SATA's working in RAID1 and use the existing as a backup via the USB cable.
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Someone said this is a SATA backplane. It is has nothing to do with SATA, it is not a backplane an has nothing to do with drive connectors.
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After writing about 200gb of data on 2 of these they failed. It's very hard to do, but after they died, I managed to crack mine open. Innostor makes the electronic USB to SATA drive adapter inside. Inside one, I found a Western Digital laptop drive made in 2007. In the other I found a Seagate drive, also made in 2007. They put very old, well used drives in these. So it's potluck if you'll get one that will last a while. They advertised these as new, & I paid for new drives. If I wanted used ones, I could have got them real cheap or for almost nothing. I don't recommend used or refurbished drives. They're unreliable. After writing about 200gb of data on 2 of these they failed. It's very hard to do, but after they died, I managed to crack mine open. Innostor makes the electronic USB to SATA drive adapter inside. Inside one, I found a Western Digital laptop drive made in 2007. In the other I found a Seagate drive, also made in 2007. They put very old, well used drives in these. So it's potluck if you'll get one that will last a while. They advertised these as new, & I paid for new drives. If I wanted used ones, I could have got them real cheap or for almost nothing. I don't recommend used or refurbished... » Read More After writing about 200gb of data on 2 of these they failed. It's very hard to do, but after they died, I managed to crack mine open. Innostor makes the electronic USB to SATA drive adapter inside. Inside one, I found a Western Digital laptop drive made in 2007. In the other I found a Seagate drive, also made in 2007. They put very old, well used drives in these. So it's potluck if you'll get one that will last a while. They advertised these as new, & I paid for new drives. If I wanted used ones, I could have got them real cheap or for almost nothing. I don't recommend used or refurbished drives. They're unreliable. « Show Less