My HDD started clicking and caused a VM crash—should I stop using it?
Today, while running a virtual machine, my Seagate 2TB hard drive began making repeated clicking sounds and the virtual machine crashed with a blue screen. The clicking happened…
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My Seagate HDD Started Clicking and Caused a VM Crash—Is It Failing?
My Seagate 2TB hard drive began clicking repeatedly while I was using a virtual machine, and the virtual machine soon crashed with a blue screen. The clicking continued…
Is My 8TB Hard Drive Failing Despite a Healthy SMART Status?
I'm not very experienced with PC hardware, so I'm trying to figure out what's happening with my 8TB Seagate hard drive (ST8000VN004-2M2101). It used to work normally, but…
Is My Seagate 8TB Hard Drive Failing Despite Showing a Healthy SMART Status?
I'm not very experienced with PC hardware, but my hard drive has started behaving strangely over the past few months. I previously downloaded games to it without problems,…
Why does my StarTech USB-to-SATA dock shut off when I connect a hard drive?
I'm trying to use two older Seagate Desktop hard drives, one 3TB and one 5TB, with a brand-new StarTech USB 3.1 SATA dock. Both drives worked reliably in…
My 8TB external hard drive keeps clicking—should I replace it immediately?
I have a Seagate 8TB external hard drive connected to my NAS, and since yesterday it has been making a continuous clicking sound. I initially thought it might…
My 4TB Seagate drive is failing—how can I recover the remaining data?
My 4TB Seagate ST4000DM004-2CV104 hard drive contained about 3.6TB of data and began showing health problems several months ago. I delayed replacing it and, three days ago, it…
Why won't my iPhone 14 Pro recognize my 2TB Seagate HDD?
I'm having an issue with my 2TB Seagate Expansion HDD that I formatted as exFAT on my Mac, using a single GUID partition. I'm trying to connect it…