Used a crappy external enclosure - did I damage my new HDD?

[Violet_Shift]

For those that are familiar with my prior post, I'm migrating my data off a dying RAID. All of that's going OK so far - everything I care about is on an external SSD and I plan to write it all to a WD Gold I bought.

I bought a cheap enclosure off Amazon (this one: https://www.orico.cc/usmobile/product/detail/id/3518) to do the job, and set it up to copy without thinking.

When I came back to it, the drive was making an extremely loud vibrating noise and I'd had to put a fan pointed at the enclosure to keep it all cool.

I expect that there was some looseness in the enclosure that allowed the drive to vibrate against the case when it spun up, making an awful noise.

But I don't know. The drive doesn't make any strange noises or show any weird symptoms when it's mounted internally, but I do not have enough drive bays to do the transfer without using an external enclosure. And I'm scared now that the enclosure I used did something horrible like over-volting the drive or the vibration damaged it or something.

Am I being paranoid to seriously consider buying a new drive "just in case"? Or is the drive likely fine?

 

[kony]

The drive is probably fine. Run Crystal Disk Info and chkdsk for a fast check just to be certain, but I don't expect it to be damaged.

 

[KedsDead]

Sounds like a vibration issue with the enclosure. As Kony stated, the drive is likely fine. May need to put some small rubber pads on the mounts to keep the vibrations form the drive spinning up to not rattle the enclosure.

That enclosure does not look to be designed for extended use. No ventilation, just like my step kids dad bought him. He left it plugged in there while he was at his dads, and left the Xbox on. The drive enclosure was extremely hot, and now it doesn't work. I fan can feel the drive attempt to spin up, likes it pulsing. So I wouldn't use that enclosure if you plan on leaving it plugged in and on.

 

[FoulOnWhite]

I'm using a orico 2.5" usb3 external enclosure and it is fine, your HDD should be ok. mine is plugged in all the time to a tv box for recording, it is not even warm

 

[Violet_Shift]

Sounds like a vibration issue with the enclosure. As Kony stated, the drive is likely fine. May need to put some small rubber pads on the mounts to keep the vibrations form the drive spinning up to not rattle the enclosure.

That enclosure does not look to be designed for extended use. No ventilation, just like my step kids dad bought him. He left it plugged in there while he was at his dads, and left the Xbox on. The drive enclosure was extremely hot, and now it doesn't work. I fan can feel the drive attempt to spin up, likes it pulsing. So I wouldn't use that enclosure if you plan on leaving it plugged in and on.

Yeah, it was getting hot; I pointed a fan at the enclosure to keep the temp down, was able to keep it in the "green" range in HD Sentinel doing this. Do you have any recommendation for a better one that's not overly pricey?

 

[KedsDead]

I dont personally use one, but it should not get hot unless your using it. I searched Newegg and found decent priced with ventilation. But like I said, I dont use one personally.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Heat shouldn't be an issue if you leave the top cover off.
But then again I use an old style one with lots of holes but out of stock

Amazon.com

Cheapest thing to do is drill lots of holes bottom/ sides in the one you have and leave the top off.