WD Ultrastar 14TB HDD - DC HC530 - WUH721414ALE604 - ConnectingTrick

[@feltonyoung2551]

I Purchased two brand new WD 18tb for my upcoming film shoots on Facebook marketplace. I plugged them up and nothing worked, until I came across your video. A simple Amazon purchase for some MOLEX ADAPTERS and now I have 32tb of hard drive space. Thank for the heads up. You're Da Man!

[@alegreviews]

Glad to help !

[@tutrinh2724]

Just CUT the orange wire on your sata power cable and its work, this HDD doesnt need +3.3vdc power, only +5 and +12vdc

[@user-xq3do7rq6v]

SATA power connectors can safely provide up to 54 Watts of power. Molex power connectors can safely provide up to 132 Watts* of power. PCIe 6 pin power connectors can safely provide up to 75 Watts of power.

[@JasonHendry22]

great video, theres to many showing shunting without shunting so seeing this trick is great

Me sirvio mucho, ¡gracias! Los de soporte tecnico de la tienda donde lo compre no supieron esta solución y querian que lo regresara con ellos porque no servia. Saludos.

[@hanzkranz1319]

600$ Harddrive - "I am that risky Guy"

[@alegreviews]

this model goes "pretty cheap" often times for below $300 on ebay and Amazon. But I totally agree, I did it wrong lazy way

[@hanzkranz1319]

@@alegreviews Why is hardware way cheaper in the US, then in Germany, even Euro worth more?

[@hanzkranz1319]

@@alegreviews Oh... It is only 14tb. I thought 18.

[@alegreviews]

@@hanzkranz1319 that's a good question, a lot of things are cheaper in the US, sometimes EU stuff can be cheaper, but rather rarely. In WD case - it is a US company, EU generally has more tariffs and taxes on imported goods. A BMW or Mercedes in USA is often cheaper in than in Germany, and definitely cheaper than in other EU countries because of tariffs

[@hanzkranz1319]

@@alegreviews But even german Cars are way way way cheaper in the US!

[@leocpassos]

solved the problem with style

[@XX-121]

static discharge must be a conspiracy.

[@alegreviews]

not sure, I was just lazy

[@asarydayo]

what to do if I don’t have molex? my PSU is Corsair RM850

[@alegreviews]

You van buy one like in the video for a few dollars

[@dalecalorr]

brother, it's good that I found your video, I was already thinking that they were broken, thanks for the video, ask what cables do I need from the mold so that they can serve the hard disk since they are the same as yours

[@alegreviews]

you need molex adapters, check out on ebay and amazon, I saw sellers selling those there

[@MDealer]

I also always nearly break my fingers with those molex...

[@devilzuser0050]

So if 3,3V is present, these drives cannot start? Hmm.. Ihave just 2 of this,works with Z590I, but didn't work with Rampage V extreme and LSI 9260-8i add on card also did notwork under.

[@alegreviews]

ye, you need molex cord for this model

[@isaiahjones429]

If I was to put one of these in a portable 3.5 hdd enclosure would I still need to disable the power off function?? Seems like it would be useful in that scenario

[@alegreviews]

I have not tried that. Maybe yes… maybe no

[@isaiahjones429]

I just ordered it so I’ll let yk lol

[@mrjuergensie]

Jau Dau 👍 Ona Hola 🙌😂

[@hazmat151]

painful to watch HD being placed on the worst possible surface and most static filled thing ever ie a towel

[@alegreviews]

I absolutely agree, it was so unprofessional on my side

[@j7m7f]

You are really crazy! You disconnect from the power 14TB drive in live system???? Once I had 8tb drive and I took it out from docking station just a few seconds after I powered it off and I felt that the discs were still spinning and later the HDD had a lot of bad sectors. Unfortunatelly I already copied a lot of data to it and some was not recoverable. Fortunatelly it was 1 day after purchase and seller accepted my return and sent me a new one which is still working perfectly up to now, but I'm very carefull with HDDs I connect using my docking station - I would never connect a disc like you did - you can lose date this way.

[@alegreviews]

You are absolutely right. I was very careless and lazy in that video.

[@markusbluebird3229]

How abaou wdc ultradisk . Is it need enclosure or docking to view it. Or hdd case converter to usb

[@alegreviews]

WUH721414ALE604 - this model is a "very" Internal HDD, and probably can only be used as that.

[@marcin_karwinski]

@@alegreviews Seems this model has been sold to/manufactured as an OEM server SI market or internally for the WD Easystores and other WD external solutions, not even supported as a hard drive under retail warranty ;) So is this a shuckled drive? Have you verified the warranty period (an OEM SI drive would result in a "warranty supported by reseller only" message, that often is 1yr compared to retail models manufacturer warranty of 5 yrs)?

[@MapleJokerRofl]

I just placed an order for one of these HDD . I had in mind that all HDD would need to be connected to the sata cable from the psu ? I guess not? But I was planning to give it power from the psu so I should be fine? or im not understanding something? Thanks for the video sir!

[@alegreviews]

A person in 1 of the comments explained it best: darkcg79 I did some investigations on this fact and I want to point out one other trick to recognize if your Ultrastar would work in your PC without hassle: basically, you have to check your product number: for Ultrastar disks, the penultimate letter or number of your product number is what tells you if your model supports the Pin 3 Power Disable (PWDIS) feature or not. If it is "0", like the product number of the disk shown in this video, the power disable pin 3 feature IS supported (so you need the trick described in this video). If it is an "L", the feature IS NOT supported and it will work normally inside a regular PC without the SATA 3.3 power supply. Hope this clarify things a bit.

[@MapleJokerRofl]

@@alegreviews thank you very much , yes I saw that comment . According to Amazon my penultimate number it’s an L so I should be good . Let’s hope I received the same hdd . Thank you

[@alegreviews]

@@MapleJokerRofl those with L usually go at higher price on 3rd party market (Amazon/eBay), but somebody might send one instead of the other, often unknowingly. Many people just see them as 14TB WD when they are in OEM packaging like that without a UPC on the package

[@MapleJokerRofl]

@@alegreviews if the item I receive is not what I’m expecting I will return it . The seller is WD so idk . Where would you suggest me to purchase from?

[@alegreviews]

well I always take the risk myself and buy from 3rd party seller more often on ebay instead of Amazon because of generally lower price. On Amazon prices are generally higher but sellers are generally more honest, but Amazon price is often same as to buy from manufacturer or from BestBuy, I would go with the latter any day. People are just so used to Amazon and they everything on Amazon. Amazon Prime Fulfilled order are easy to return if something is wrong. I think either HDD is very fast and good to have if You really need 14TB. I personally have 4TB SSD, I overpaid compared to HDD storage at that price. But I like instantanious access to everything without lags that I had before even with SSHD. I would never go back to HDD. But HDD is more reasonable for now if You need all that storage

[@parhatterpul7075]

are you a supplier ? do you distribute them as whole sale?

[@alegreviews]

no

[@lookshell]

屏蔽3.3V供电即可

[@lovekush2880]

Windows 7 dont show more than 2 TB HDD

[@alegreviews]

there is a way, I have a 4TB in my computer with Windows 7. I think it has to be 64bit Windows version

[@lakorai2]

You need to be on Windows 10 X64 formatted with UEFI. Them the disk needs to be GPT formatted and the drive will format. Actually you really need to not be on Windows 7 anymore. Thats pretty dangerous

[@alegreviews]

@@lakorai2 Windows 7 has been good and stable for me. I kinda waiting till it starts lagging and giving me problems so that I have a good reason to switch to Windows 10),

[@lakorai2]

@@alegreviews no security updates is plenty of reason to stop using Windows 7

[@WR3ND]

Enjoying a 16TB WD Gold drive in my Windows 7, etc., machine. I didn't need the power trick here to get the drive to work though. Just straight SATA power works for me on the Gold drive. Windows 10 is just an inconsistent mess of a UI slapped on Windows 7 for Microsoft's service ecosystem ambitions. It adds nothing for users beyond intentional obsolesces of earlier OSs, Wait, I take that back. It does have one nice new feature since Windows 8 - wireless display support. Pay no attention to the scared sheep that don't know how to secure and maintain a computer for themselves and would rather let Microsoft drive their computers for them.