Did my not ever a year old HDD just die?
Bought Seagate Ironwolf 8TB not even a year ago. Was using it just fine til this morning. Never skipped a beat. It was put inside one of those Chinese caddy storage, placed on top of my desk and then connected to my laptop via USB B to USB A port. Since I’m against this way of HDD usage, I was saving and building a desktop on the side. Cutting straight to point, this morning, I turned off laptop running my NixOS. Took the HDD out. Connected it to the desktop with SATA POWER + SATA DATA cable and desktop wasn’t turning on. Switched the SATA power cable and system booted but to my surprise no HDD was detected ever.
Then to make sure it’s not my desktop, I placed it back into my caddy and connected it to my NixOS laptop and it is not being detected anywhere now. Seems like HDD doesn’t spin up anymore.