Seagate Hdd Docking Station

[Kenneth Melniczek]

Isthere any SATA to USB adapter available for this hard drive? If yes, what is the specification (cable no etc.)?

I also need a power supply to power the disk. But I am not sure what type of power cable would fit into my hard drive.

The Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 is a 1TB standard SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" drive. The products you'd want to look for are called "docking station" (larger devices, that hold the drive in place with a base or "adapter" (a simple cable) and both plug into USB on a host machine and provide the SATA interface as well as SATA power for the drive, so you don't need a seperate power adapter.

If you are frequently dumping drives from out-of-commission computers, I'd recommend the docking station, as it's slightly more convenient, but if this is something you do infrequently, probably just the adapter.

Verify your adapter or docking station support SATA 6.0 and USB3 and that the host USB port you are using is USB3 for maximum throughput. If you choose a docking station, verify that it supports 3.5" drives.

You will want to use a host machine that has sufficient space to copy the files off of the drive. You should avoid making writes to the drive if you suspect it is damaged (e.g. deleting unwanted files, renaming or moving files), instead copy only the desired files from the drive to the host machine then do any renaming, organization, or clean up afterward.

I am having some back-up hard drive problems, so I thought I'd look at the drives on my docking station. I know I've used the docking station before but I can't remember how I connected it to my iMac. The only connection on the docking station is a USB 3.0 port, which is fair enough, but I now have the problem that my iMac and my docking station now have identical USB ports, and I haven't got a cable that terminates in two such USB connections. How do I connect things up?

Before purchasing it, I did a short research to find out if its going to work with Ubuntu, and I found a thread here (askubuntu) justifying that SGate-1TB ext drive is going to work(lost the link for that thread). I tried with my other machines with 12.04 running - No success, however with windows it works great.

I have had an experience with a Seagate product a couple of years ago that required security software and drivers (Windows based) to "unlock" and make the drive appear once attached via USB. I had to disable it to use on my linux machines. Sorry I do not have more detail but hopefully this is another avenue for your troubleshooting.

I had a similar issue at first, but it was just because my laptop PC was in a docking station and I was plugging the Seagate drive into one of the laptop's usb ports. When I plugged it in to a usb port on the docking station, it showed up in ubuntu 13.04's launcher bar with no problem, mounted on /media/username/Seagate\ Backup\ Plus\ Drive/

My guess is that it's an issue with the power supplied by the usb port. I didn't see the power-on light on the drive when plugged in to the notebook directly, but did see it when plugged in to the docking station....

Change all permissions to create and delete and make sure owner is set to Me and the group is set to root also change permission to enclosed files recursively...alternatively you can install a new OS set your main drives mount point to / and your usb hard drives mount point to /home when using Plex I found the later way is more stable.

Right now as I write this all 4 drives are mute, but at any moment that fourth drive will start running at a rapid pace like it it going through all the files on the drive checking for errors or transferring data.

@Ryan K You should check on a hardware forum or reddit for storage and/or hard drives. It's possible that drive has some sort of anti-idle setting or a different power setting. Alternatively, the system it's attached to might be running a scheduled task on it for some reason, which could be software-based.

Same thing happens to me Ryan on my 5-bay Sabrent docking station. I am not technical enough to hold a dialogue or investigate forums or settings.. I just searched here hoping to find an answer with instructions. But I posted just now to corroborate your experience.

(Further, annecdotally, and these long tasks (whatever they might be) happening while I am not even using or performing any actions or data transfers on any of the 5 drives is indeed very noisy, similar kinds of constant "grinding" noise you'd hear when some kind of anti-malware scan is running on a drive going on taking half hour or hour. Mine is connected to an iMac M1.

@Richard Hoefer I will check in on this but the docking station is of a fairly basic design such that it can be impacted by drive and OS/software settings. In some cases, a firmware update may assist, but some aspects could require modification.

@Sabrent I think I have found the problem. I went to the Task Manager and clicked on Drives to see what processes were performing actions and noticed one of my video players which I use was setup to run at startup and it was accessing my drives.

Once I stopped that player and disabled it from running at startup I have not seen this process happen since. The one drive which kept starting up and scanning at random is now silent unless I am accessing it in file explorer to find a file or transfer files.

By launching its FireCuda Gaming Dock, Seagate is looking to address the market of modern ultra-thin notebooks from the outside-in, as fewer and fewer laptops come with user-accessible/upgradable storage. By and large, Seagate is banking on the fact that mobile PCs generally lack space to store games, and may not have enough ports for a full suite of peripherals. Therefore, integrating storage into a TB3 docking station makes a lot of sense.

The external packaging of this docking station is covered in pictures of gamers, of bright LEDs and of all the jargon and tech-speak that are the hallmark of the PC gamer. Unlike to traditionally subdued packaging that is found on other Seagate storage solutions (external USB drives, internal hard drives and SSDs), this is clearly something that has been worked on for their target demographic.

Details of the contents, the connections possible, the software specifications and the utility of this thunderbolt 3 docking station are all pretty clear and despite the fact that the majority of buyers will order this from online platforms (and therefore retail packaging is seen way beyond the point of sale) I applaud the retail kit design.

The full contents are fairly standard and pretty much everything you are going to need to bridge the connections between your gaming kit and your laptop/notebook are here. Alongside this there are a few extra little things about the Firecuda Docking station retail kit that I want to highlight for merit.

First up, we have the external power brick. Now there are two schools of thought on this and both have their advantages and disadvantages. Many users choose Thunderbolt 3 accessories because TB3 can supply quite alot of power/current and alot of accessories via this port can be bus (system) powered, so they will not be a big fan of an external power supply requirement. The other point of view is that a docking station is a static device that is used for deployment in a static environment, where you move your mobile device (tablet/laptop) to-and-from and the docking station will never actually be moved.

I am very much in the 2nd category, with the additional point that the power drain of Thunderbolt 3 can actually often be a problem on Windows systems, as it draws quite a bit of power (even some GPU umpf) from the main system when in use, and bus-powered TB3 items when connected can actually slow down many TB3 systems with battery power. I think an external power brick to allow you to create a 1 cable connection with your gaming station/desk (with its keyboard, mouse, headphones, LAN, Monitor, etc) and it being powered separate from the system itself is a good thing.

Measuring 5.1cm x 27cm x 13.5cmand 2.6KG in weight, it is not quite as portable as you might like, so maybe concerns over the external power block for some are less than important in the grand scheme of things. The actual full chassis is made up of two main parts, with the bulk of it forming the HDD enclosure and board for the ports. At the tip of the device is a removable vent cap that is festooned with ventilation and LED lightholes.

The rear of the device is smooth and without detail, as is the base of the device (though there are a small mesh vent and large rubberized feet). It appears that the front panel severs as the primary means of ventilation and given that this is where the NVMe bays lives (will go into more detail later), it is more than enough for this two-tier storage system, though I do wonder about if ALL the ports and two drive bays are accessed over TB3, how well this semi-passive cooling system holds up.

Finally, there are two standard 3.5mm jack audio in and out ports. This is fairly standard and despite the rise of USB connected audio peripherals, most professionals and die-hard traditionalists will ALWAYS stick to their sounds in/out arriving in this connection. I cannot argue with this.

Finally, there is the inclusion of Seagate Ironwolf Health management, a firmware addition on all Ironwolf drives that allows you to perform deeper and more analytical testing of a drive that traditional SMART tests provide. So, with this in mind, an ironwolf HDD in the Firecuda dock is a fairly sensible choice. As it is a 4TB drive, the vibration and noise of the drive whilst it being accessed are present but very, very low.

If we remove the ventilated and LED end of the Firecuda Docking station (which is magnetically connected) we find the NVMe bay that is an EXTRA piece of storage benefit for this device that sets it apart from almost every other docking station in the world.

The bay is branded with the Seagate Ironwolf logo, though it is compatible with pretty much any NVMe m.2 SSD 2280 length drive. In order to install a drive (As the 4TB firecuda dock does not include an NVMe drive by default), it is a simple case of unscrewing either side of the logo.

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