I want this to be an optimistic happy post, I really do. However it just doesn’t work that way isn’t it?

Given that everything is going to shit quickly, including the hardware prices, I thought I’ll stock up on hard drives and populate my storage unit with newer disks. Namely, factory recertified HAMR Seagate drives, of which I’ve got 2x24T and 2x28T. During the course of this forklift I finally managed to put together a working ATA LPM configuration which does not wreck ata port 3 on Aoostar WTR Pro (I mentioned it in one of the previous posts).

However.

What happens instead is, when I insert all 4 disks, the machine doesn’t start properly. It starts spinning up, but power cuts off. If you allow it to suffer, it’ll restart and spin again about 10 times, eventually for drives to gain enough momentum and spin without power fizzling out. And at this point the machine actually proceeds to boot up and everything is grand. But! If for some reason you spin down all the drives, and then try to spin them up, you lose power and have yourself an outage.

I can’t imagine nobody tried to put 4 HAMR drives into this thing. Anyway, there are 2 options - either it’s the PSU and using 200w one will help, or it’s a 12v rail limit and then I need to throw this thing out and put together a new nas - and now it’s the worst time to do that.