The unit turns on for 15 seconds, then shuts down. The drives do not spin up. The drives work.. i tested on an external SATA enclosure. Anyone seen
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The only problem I heard on the this unit is that the power cable connection can become intermittent. If it gets physically stressed, a weak connection could be your problem. Other than that, it's busted.
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I believe the unit has several power settings the one you are on now Powers up, 1 minute it powers down don't know what good that'sfor! One that powers up stay on,powers down with the lack of activities and one that powers up stay on till you turn it off. I had the sameexperience when my girl mess with the box. I was able to change the setting by holding down the interface button for a couple of seconds.I hope that helps you out!!!
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The 1st unit we purchased about a year ago did the exact same thing! It was broken. Sent it back and got new one that worked fine. I am betting yours is defective too. We now have 4 of these units setup and they work great. One note is that the 1st drive can't seem to be over 1.5 tb to work correctly with our windows systems. Some sorry of windows problem. So we setup drive 1 as 1.5tb & the other 3 drives are 3tb each.
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do the blue lights flash continuously? I found that when I installed my esata control driver, it installed under the wrong section.The drivers installed in "IDE ATA and not "storage controller". The 4 led blue lights would flash and the box would shut down. I added another administrator user and installed from there, the driver installed in the correct "storage controller" director in device manager. I know have access. I have two cards, one is Silicon Image, which installed correctly first time. The other is Siig which used Asmedia controller, this is the one that gave me trouble. do the blue lights flash continuously? I found that when I installed my esata control driver, it installed under the wrong section.The drivers installed in "IDE ATA and not "storage controller". The 4 led blue lights would flash and the box would shut down. I added another administrator user and installed from there, the driver installed in the correct "storage controller" director in device manager. I know have access. I have two cards, one is Silicon Image, which installed correctly first time. The other is Siig which used Asmedia controller, this is the one... » Read More do the blue lights flash continuously? I found that when I installed my esata control driver, it installed under the wrong section.The drivers installed in "IDE ATA and not "storage controller". The 4 led blue lights would flash and the box would shut down. I added another administrator user and installed from there, the driver installed in the correct "storage controller" director in device manager. I know have access. I have two cards, one is Silicon Image, which installed correctly first time. The other is Siig which used Asmedia controller, this is the one that gave me trouble. « Show Less
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I have Sata II WD Black drives in mine. However I would suggest a different Raid bay. This one has its own raid card and it works intermittently. There is a lack of support for the card and its very cumbersome.
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If you are using the power adapter that is supplied with the USB hub the hub then is independently powered and the external drives are more than likely being "tricked" into thinking that there is still an active connection between the drives and the PC, therefore the drives will not turn off with the PC. If you unplug the adapter the external drives should then shut down also. Will the drives being on damage the drives? Not really, because there is no actual activity (reading/writing) taking place when the PC is turned off. Does it use a little electricity? Yes, but it would be minimal. Bottom line, if you are concerned about the drives being left on, unplug the power to the hub and they should shut down. If it means anything, I have a PC that I built with 5 Western Digital Black Series 4tb hard drives in RAID 0 and a 2tb external WD My Book attached that run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and they are fine.
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I never had any trouble with mine. I did have one time where it was not plugged in all the way to the drive. lights should come on to tell it is working and the usb's need to be both plugged in to the usb ports. I carry a 320g drive as an external to copy information when restoring peoples computers.
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I have had nothing but bad luck with LaCie drives, I have had two of them not function out of the box. My experience is the exact opposite with the G Drive, these drives are quiet, and seem to run forever. I have not had a single issue with any one of the seven I own
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I tried to plug in an external 320GB hard drive and it didn't work at all. The enclosure had its own power supply and I have plugged it into other USB Hubs before, but this one didn't even recognize it. don't know if it was defective or a limitation of the design, but I am returning it considering that I bought this Hub to swap multiple external hard drives and thumb drives. Hope this helps.
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You know what thats interesting that you bring that up. I hooked a 4 drive enclosure to this hub and evey time I would write to the drives on in the enclosure they would drop off (meaning they would disconnect and then re-connect). when I connect the enclosure to the 3.0 port on my actual machine it worked? I wonder if its becuase of what you brought up with the current not being strong enough? But I dont use this thing. The power connector is flimsy and the ports sometimes would not power up at times. its not well made I would not recommend buying this.
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Anthoney, I need a bit more information, as to what you have done already and the results you have gottern so far and the specific things that are not working with this unit, then prehaps I can tell you what you want to know, first of all make sure that the drives are being recognized, are you trying to use this as a stand alone or with you computer??
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It should work and so should that 840evo.. is it just not detecting? check your bios setting as you might need to change the SATA type.. Check and change the drive mode from IDE to ACHI..
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I couldn't get the timers to work correctly. There is an update Seagate OS 4 you can read up on. The new software may work for you.
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I tried my Toshiba HDDs but none of them work. I think it is because of power. But some people answered that it powered other brand HDDs. So I think it really depend on HDDs.
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I don't know; I haven't tried it. I am using "regular" e-SATA drives which work fine. Suggest contacting the manufacturer directly since they would know.
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Hello, I have two and have not had an issue. This is only switch connected between the Power Supply and Hard Drive. If anything these have actually help save selected drives from running unnecessarily when not need. I have 2 of these units that control 12 Hard Drives. No issues in 2 years.
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i believe it is because the "on" switch is still in the "on" position. the drive stays on until it is removed from the desktop and switched off.
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I just got the drive. It is the same model as before. But simply replacing the pcb board does not work. The original pcb board is working fine as tested by mounting it to the new drive. There is some serious problem inside the sealed chamber like reading arms or some mechanical failure. I don't want to mess it up now. I have to eat the pain of losing my data. I used to always trust WD but now I changed my mind. Maybe looking for a seagate one for replacement. Next time I will build a Raid.
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Good question, sad to say, the drive starts from the beginning once you turn it off, then it restarts from the first song, so whenever I do that I am constantly having to hit the "next" button over and over to get to where I last was....Same with using a SATA card. Other than that little glitch I really like the unit as a whole. For the price? I think it's ok.Hope this answers you coherently.
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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.