I have a lot of drives like that. Simplest solution is to cut the orange wire on the drive power cable. Only down side is that some ssd may require the 3.3V power so you might not want to modify all the power cables. I just had to do this so my sas drives would spin up. Before I did it the drives didn't even show up in the bios. (and I just got 10 of these used, they are going into a raid 6 array+spares). I've been making this mod for over 10 years.
--"Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege." Tommy Douglas May 9, 2024, 15:12 by rdalek1...@gmail.com: > Dale wrote: > >> >> Now to avoid buying another one of these drives again. I really wish >> sellers who should know would put in the description or list of features >> that the drive has PWDIS. After all, most buyers of small quantities of >> drives likely can't use that feature. The ones who do likely buy in >> bulk since they putting them in large systems. >> >> Thanks to all. I knew there would be someone on this list who actually >> had one of these things. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > > > I'm looking at buying another drive. I'm trying to avoid buying one > with the PWDIS pin. I'm looking at the specs to see if it says anything > about the feature, there or not there. I'm not seeing anything. This > is what I'm looking at. > > https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/exos-x16-DS2011-1-1904US-en_US.pdf > > Can someone tell me how to know when a drive has PWDIS and when it > doesn't? Is there some term for it that shows in the specs and I'm > missing it? Or is there no way to really know? > > Thanks. > > Dale > > :-) :-) >
