So I have a user who has an external hard drive that suddenly doesn't power up at all when connecting it via USB. I have had him try alternate cables and computers as well. It's just a regular external USB drive where you plug it into USB, it spins up, and then you go. Now he plugs it in and nothing happens on it at all. I wanted to check here with you folks before telling him sorry it's just crashed and dead. I will try extracting the internal drive on it and directly connect it to a computer when he returns to the office. Anyone have any other suggestions by chance?

Dear Experts, we purchased Disk enclosure HPE 2050 yesterday to expand the storage capacity of SAN storage controller HPE MSA 2040.

We connected 1 SAS cable from OUT port of 2040 to IN port of 2050. After that, we turned on the 2050 device and add disk group, built RAID6 but it seems like take longer time than expected. Moreover, we got the "Degraded" status on Disks information, so is it normal? Can you suggest please? Should we connect the other SAS cable between 2 devices?

I have a new HP Omen laptop that I just installed a new 1 TB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD hard drive.
The laptop came with a 128 GB PCIe NVMe M.2 SSD  (which I swapped out) and a 1 TB 7200 RPM SATA HDD which I left alone.

I am a bit of a novice on this so I am confused with what to do next.  Windows does not see the bigger drive and so it is all shown in Computer Managment as 'unallocated space'.

It seems to me on laptops where i had done something similar in the past I was just able to right click the main area, select 'extend' and follow the prompts.

However, extend is greyed-out when I try that?   Help!
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I'm trying to resurrect an HP Pavilion 500-0470cb.
I had formatted the hard drive and then couldn't boot at all.
I found a bad power pin on the DVD power connector and fixed that.
I replaced the DVD drive.
I see the lights on the keyboard.
The boot is set for DVD first, HD 2nd.

When I go to boot from a Windows 10 DVD or a Knoppix CD, this happens:
1) the legend "press any key to boot from CD or DVD" appears
2) I press any key and nothing happens.
3) Soon, the light blue Recovery screen appears and is frozen - nothing works to change at that point.

If there is not a bootable CD/DVD in the drive, it goes direct to (3).

I'm stuck.

Hi

I am looking to backup 32GB of data in a possible 6 hour window for a client and then they what an air gap between next day backup. i.e.
Physical change over of Media ... any ideas of a way forward with this or a product suggestion

I have a batch of refurbished Dell 086DD 1.92 SAS SSDs that I would like to test for TBW / remaining health before installing in a production environment.  I posted another question and learned that I can use an SAS Host Bus Adapter card to allow Crystal Disk Info to read the usage information from SAS drives.  However, the problem that I am now having is getting a card that will work with these specific 086DD drives.

I have used the following cards.  All of them will recognize and access a Kingston 240GB SATA SSD and a Dell Toshiba 0GWFRY 300GB SAS HD.  
--Supermicro SAAS2LP-MV8 HBA - 1.92TB not recognized
--PERC H700 - 1.92 not recognized
--PERC H710 - 1.92 not recognized
--PERC 6i - 1.92 IS recognized!!
EDIT --H310 - 1.92 not recognized (one of my guys got the IT firmware flashed)
EDIT - PERC 5i - 1.92 IS recognized

Of the four cards I've tried, the oldest card is the only one that will recognize the 1.92TB SSD.  Since it's not an HBA, though, I can't use Crystal Disk Info with it to access the drive status.  

I also have an H310 that I am trying to get flashed into HBA mode with the IT firmware, but it's giving me some grief with a "failed to initialize PAL" error.  However, I am not optimistic about the H310 working as I assume it's the same generation as the H710.  

So, what SAS HBA do I need to buy that recognize and access a Dell 086DD 1.92 SAS SSD?

I need to go to a job site to wipe 25 hard drives.  I want to load software on a USB stick/boot to USB then reformat disk.  Any suggestions for what the best software to use would be?

i have about 600gb data that i like to transfer from one windows 10 laptop to other windows 10 laptop
how can i achieve it

please advise

Hi,

I have HP DL380 G7 server that has 6 drives. Each two drives working under RAID1 configuration. One of hard drive failed (start to blink yellow color).  I want to replace it with a new one. I have same size hard drive but I do not know how to build RAID 1 configuration again for the failed drive.

All drives are SAS and hot swap. Are there any documents or video that can help me to do that?

Thank you in advance.
Regards

Having trouble downloading Google drive to my PC.  I have downloaded twice but can't find it on my computer nor does it show up in control panel under programs and features.  I would like to place a folder for Google drive under Quick Launch so that I can put documents there from my computer.  Thanks