Hi there, I connected perfectly healthy Seagate mini 2 TB USB drive to my Synology DS923+ NAS drive. I moved files back and forth and everything was fine and dandy until I just unplugged a drive and went to connect it to my iMac. Sure, NAS software said, next time unmount drive before unplugging it. But that was after the fact. Mac can’t see it no matter what. In Disk utility it’s there but can’t be mounted, erased, formatted, read or written. What can I do? Will PC be better in connecting to that drive. As of now it acts bricked.

  • TastySpare@alien.topBEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Am I just dumb? Why would one connect a drive to a NAS, move files around, then connect that drive to another machine? Why wouldn’t you just access the NAS from… idk… the network?

    • baskura@alien.topBEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Copying over a network can be slower if not a high speed link I would expect.

  • anonproblem@alien.topBEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Try connecting it directly, using SATA, to a machine running a flavor of linux, like ubuntu. I have found that they are much more forgiving. You might try a different USB adapter, but that just adds more to the troubleshoot chain.

  • sallysaunderses@alien.topBEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Have you tried reconnecting it to the synology or whoever it was before and see if it pops up then properly eject it

  • HalfdeadKiller@alien.topBEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I would see if HDDSuperClone LiveCD operating system can see it. If not you are probably looking at physical drive issues with my amateur experience in dealing with dieing drives.

  • Idenwen@alien.topBEnglish
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    7 months ago

    rewrite boot sector, reformat and use again.

    if that does not help you probably really killed it.

    • HTWingNut@alien.topBEnglish
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      7 months ago

      Well when your PC holds your USB device hostage for no apparent reason (looking at you, Windows), sometimes you have to just yank it.

      • rajmahid@alien.topBEnglish
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        7 months ago

        I agree, it’s a pita to have to go through that stupid eject business but I learned quite awhile back with trashed flash drive information when I’d pull out before doing the Windows ritual.

    • Most_Mix_7505@alien.topBEnglish
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      7 months ago

      It’s fine on most if not all USB thumb drives nowadays. Windows has disabled its write cache on removable devices since like 2016. It was more annoying than anything anyway since the cache just soaked up all the writes into system memory with no throttling. Then you could be sitting there for half an hour not knowing the progress of the writes on the drive if it was a slow flash drive.

      For external SSDs it’s a must to do a safe removal since the drive’s write cache will almost always be enabled, or if it’s disabled the drive’s performance will tank. Not sure about DRAM-less SSDs though. Also, SSDs can corrupt more than just the data being modified, so the stakes are higher.

      For external SMR hard drives the write cache will always be enabled since they basically can’t function without it, so it would be a good idea to do a safe removal then. Plus the drive gets shutdown cleanly. A surprise power cut makes the head slam back with the residual energy from the spinning platters and I’ve seen it kill a couple drives.

      TL;DR thumb drives you can just yank on windows, everything else you should probably do a safe removal