I have a 4tb ‘passport’ typr HDD attached to my Vero 4k+ via USB.
It works fine and videos play off it perfectly. But its clear that it and the Vero as ‘not best friends’. I quite often get the message
‘Unsafe USB HDD unmounted’.After a minute it mounts it again. this normally occuts at start up, and alsmost always if the HDD has been unplugged. Once all this is over all is well. HDD seems fine.
I half assumed it was an iffy usb cable, buit have tried a few.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
Hi, one initial thought is that the power supplied by the Vero 4K is no longer sufficient for this type of drive.
If you happen to have a powered USB hub lying around, try connecting it in between so that the drive draws power from the hub instead.
I used to have 3 smaller HDD and used this,
I do not any more as I now have one HDD but will give that a try, thanks
Plugged that in and will see how it goes.
Seems fine since I did that, thanks for the help
Since doing this I have noticed I can hear the HDD when watching a film off it, I tested it by plugging the HDD directly back into the Vero and the noise is absent.
Just wondering if there is a Vero setting that might be the cause ?
Thanks
Can you explain more specifically what this noise is that you are hearing? OSMC shouldn’t be treating it any different connected one way vs the other.
Its ‘normal’ HDD access noise. It occured over 2 nights.
Really suprised me, so when I had finished the film I went back to a quiter section (when the film is loud its drowned) out and played the same section again, same amp volume etc and with the HDD connected directly it was not there.
Are you maybe just sitting the drive in a little different location based on where it is connected and it is reverberating or vibrating something that is amplifying the sound in the one position? If you sit the drive on something soft like a piece of folded cloth does this make the sound difference disappear? Not to be dismissive, but these types of drives normally only operate at a single highly regulated speed and the heads operate only when they are asked to (ignoring drive self maintenance for the sake of simplicity). If your not hearing errant sounds like clicking or rhythmic patterns from the heads then I just don’t see how there could be a difference between the two situations on how the drive itself makes noise.
I picked up a couple of Elements 22TB drives recently and the clunking that they made scared me, but I found out that’s normal. I suppose the plastic chassis exposed the noise more, but I genuinely thought they were faulty at first.
Sam
99% sure I did an exact like for like test (I was a research scientist back in the day), but the HDD must have been moved as it was plugged and unplugged etc.
I will see if I can reproduce the noise and if I can I will put some soft material underneath !