WD 4TB Red Drives Wont Enumerate

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So weird issues with my box. We were shutting down an old office and they had a bunch of WD 4TB red drives that had like 350 hours on each one.. I am assuming they were only stress tested and never really in production. I decided to upgrade the 2TB that I have in a ZFS that is 4 wide and only one used for redundancy just a simple raid for movies and photos. So i make sure my data was backed up and a removed one of the 2TB drives and replaced it with one of the 4TB drives and went to the UI and it didn’t show up.. did some research and rebooted the NAS and it wont show on the controller either. I took the drive and put it on my utility machine that has SpinRite 6.1 on it and went level 5 on the drive and 0 errors and works fine.. I am so confused why this drive will not show up on my TrueNAS box though not a TrueNAS issue because if the controller cannot see it when then that is why TrueNAS does not Enumerate it

My hardware setup is as follows

Drive Bay: Kingwin Hard Drive Enclosure for Computer PC Case Internal 3 Bay Hot Swap for 3.5” HDD SSD, Backplane Trayless, SATA I/II/III & SAS I/II 6 Gbps : Amazon.ca: Musical Instruments, Stage & Studio
HBA: YiBaoTong LSI 9211-8I SAS2008 6Gbps SAS HBA FW:P20 LSI 9211-8i IT Mode ZFS FreeNAS unRAID Controller Card 2* SFF-8087 SATA : Amazon.ca: Electronics

Any idea why on SpinRite works and runs perfectly fine but on this machine it wont.. I do have a single 8 TB drive on this just for NVR recording so I know the BIOS/MB/Controller can handle larger drives. Just no idea what I am missing here.

Appreciate any help!

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Not sure if the below is the case, as I don’t think WD Red drives did such.

However, there is a new feature of the SATA power connector that allows resetting drives. If your SATA power connector supplies 3.3volts, it places these newer drives into reset mode, more or less permanently. Meaning you need to use a SATA power cable that does not supply 3.3volts. Or tape off the 3.3volt contacts on the SATA drive.

Here is the reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#SATA_power_connectors

Note that Pin 3 is the one to disable. But, harmless to disable pins 1 & 2 as well.

The overall concept for feature, is for a disk controller or disk back plane that allows individual control of Pin 3, per disk. Thus, for a disk in a stuck state, a server reset or full power off is not needed. This is something home and small office users generally don’t need, nor have the equipment that supports such a feature.

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Hey thanks for the reply. I thought the same but the drives spin up which is weird so they are getting power and if this was the case with those White label drives that people are shucking or what ever they call it they would not spin up and would be in rest mode. When I pull a drive out I can feel it spinning (that gyro effect) I am going to try right onto the MB or onto the HBA tonight to see if its seen at all make sure its not some kind of back plane issue.