I've just bought a 4tb WD drive, a WD4000FYYZ, and I think it's DOA. Before I send it back though, just want to check that I'm not doing something wrong.
I've tried putting it into an HP N40l, a little server, which has a bios dating back to 2011 (41 I think). The HP spends a while interrogating the drive at bios stage, but can't see it once the machine is running.
I've put it into an i5 machine which is about 5 years old and have got a 'sata error' message, and no drive available in gparted once I get Mint going. And, I've connected it to a Mac i7 (2011) via a USB to Sata interface, with no luck whatsovever.
This is the first drive I've had with a capacity over 2tb. I know that there were some operating system limitations on bigger disks, but surely I'd be seeing something on at least one of these machines. Does anybody have any idea whether it could be anything other than just a dead drive?
Paul Bolger
Christchurch