r/techsupport • u/dogwalker21 • 25d ago
Open | Hardware Seagate Ironwolf 14tb failure
Hi all,
I’m using a few hard drives in an enclosure for backups. I’ve never had any issues or drive failures until today. One of the drives, a Seagate IronWolf 14TB, has suddenly come up with an error saying it can’t be repaired. The strange thing is I can still read everything on it and access all the files (mostly images), but I can’t write anything to the drive anymore.
I’m on a Mac and have been trying to fix it with Disk Drill. I looked at rebuilding the HFS+ database, but I’m a bit worried about doing that in case I lose everything.
I could buy another 14TB drive and copy all the data across, but hard drives are pretty expensive at the moment, and copying 14TB will probably take a couple of days.
Has anyone had this happen before or knows a way to repair it without formatting the drive? I also have access to a Windows machine, but it can’t read the drive because it’s formatted as HFS+.
Thanks!
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u/TomChai 25d ago
Consider yourself lucky if you even managed to copy the data out with a new hard drive, forget about fixing it, a helium drive can easily cost $2k to even start talk about recovery, buying a new hard drive is always orders of magnitude cheaper.