I have 2 internal SATA 6.0 drives, one a 3TB Hitachi, and the other a 2TB Seagate Barracua that I had been using as long term backup drives, sitting unused for over a year, and now neither one will work.
Both stored in plastic box hard drive boxes in my closet in my computer room, not subject to moisture or shock, or anything.
The Hitachi will not spin up / start at all. Installed in a USB external enclosure, I get the Windows "chime" when I power up the USB case, but nothing else happens. When I do a Hot Plug install, I get the same chime but nothing. If I do a cold start, the system hangs on booting.
The Seagate will start, gets the chime, but always wants to be formatted, and the formatting fails and drive appears as a drive the system cant access. This happens no matter whether in the USB case, or hot plugged in the motherboard.
Should hard drives be "refreshed" periodically? If so how often?
Asus Rampage 4 Black Edition Bios 0802 (latest one).
I7-4930K @ stock speed / Custom water cooling loop
G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB DDR3 1600 @ stock speed.
OCZ Revodrive 120GB (boot drive)
Thermaltake Toughpower W0133RU 1200W
Asus 970GTX
Hitachi 4TB
Toshiba 3TB
W7 Pro 64 bit.
Both stored in plastic box hard drive boxes in my closet in my computer room, not subject to moisture or shock, or anything.
The Hitachi will not spin up / start at all. Installed in a USB external enclosure, I get the Windows "chime" when I power up the USB case, but nothing else happens. When I do a Hot Plug install, I get the same chime but nothing. If I do a cold start, the system hangs on booting.
The Seagate will start, gets the chime, but always wants to be formatted, and the formatting fails and drive appears as a drive the system cant access. This happens no matter whether in the USB case, or hot plugged in the motherboard.
Should hard drives be "refreshed" periodically? If so how often?
Asus Rampage 4 Black Edition Bios 0802 (latest one).
I7-4930K @ stock speed / Custom water cooling loop
G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB DDR3 1600 @ stock speed.
OCZ Revodrive 120GB (boot drive)
Thermaltake Toughpower W0133RU 1200W
Asus 970GTX
Hitachi 4TB
Toshiba 3TB
W7 Pro 64 bit.