Thanks for the quick and to the point video. Just had one die that we used for our plex server. It just wont spin up / boot. About to take the drive out of the case and see if I have any luck connecting it directly to my desktop over SATA. Fingers crossed. And it's def out of warranty, not just because of age but its a replacement from the first we had that died while under warranty (it has "recertified" on the bottom blue part). If the drive doesn't work outside the enclosure, so I can just buy a different one to put it in, I'm def going with Western Digital for the replacement.
I have this same drive but it recently stopped being picked up as an extended heard drive on my PlayStation. Says I don’t even have the hard drive plugged in. Any idea of a fix? Really don’t want to lose game progress
have you tried plugging it into a computer? you can also try taking the bare drive out and either using directly in a desktop computer, or buying an external sata adapter (like this amzn.to/4dpZZyF). All that said, do you hear any abnormal clicking noises when the drive is powered on/trying to be accessed? If so, it could be the drive failing/failed.