Hello. Because of the nature of my work I have plenty of hard drives. At least 5-7 of them are old LaCie FW800/eSATA/USB ones that have 1TB drives inside.
I want to swap the 1TB drives inside with new 4/8TB ones. The enclosures are all working fine. How do I do this?
Why do I ask: I have installed drives in enclosures before, but this time when I put a new 8TB disk in the old enclosure,. everything fit fine, but the drive/enclosure doesn’t power on. I thought it would be the new 8TB so I put the old 1TB back in, and it still doesn’t power on. It did before the swap. I double and triple checked, I have connected all cables/plugs/ports. Could I be doing something wrong? Maybe these circuits can’t take new 8TB drives? How do I find out/fix this?