A while ago I bought a refurbished HGST Ultrastar He10 hdd, when I had the money I bought a new 16 TB hdd to get everything I had on the refurbished hdd, now I wanted to use it as an external HDD but I realized that no hub or enclosure recognized it and gpt protective partition appeared in the disk manager, I tried every hub and enclosure that I have and none of them recognize it except the very first enclosure where I configured the ultrastar hdd

This is not a problem but rather a doubt because it has never happened to me that a hdd needs to be formatted every time I change its enclosure. This disk is the only wd I have. I have always bought Seagate hdd

Is this something normal for this type of hdd? Is there a way to prevent only one enclosure recognizing it?

  • Sopel97@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Enclosure issue, potentially with encryption involved. Can’t say more without knowing details.