SSHD won't do anything

[CaptainChaos37]

Hello,

i've found 2 old SSHD's, one 120GB and the other 160GB. point is: they wont do anything. no sound at all, no beeps at the start. nothing! i have litterally NO idea what is wrong with them but does anyone else of you DO know? and YES i have them plugged in. i'll have my setup here:

CPU: Intel core i7 860

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA P55-USB3L

RAM: 2x Samsung 4GB

CPU cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H50

GPU: ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series

PSU: Cooler Master GX550W

Storage: Kingston UV400 120GB SSD

Case: Cooler Master Masterbox 5

[Lurick]

Are you sure those are SSHDs because I've never heard of drives that small being made as SSHDs. Did you mean SSDs or HDDs?

Can you give us the model number?

Hard drives also don't really make sounds, they definitely don't beep.

You need to go into Disk Manager and see if they show up there.

[Snipergod87]

Do the show up in the BIOS? what are their models?

[Electronics Wizardy]

If there plugged in right, then there dead and nothing you can do.

[CaptainChaos37]

13 minutes ago, Snipergod87 said:

Do the show up in the BIOS? what are their models?

they don't. i've got a Western Digital WD1600JD and a Maxtor DaimondMax Plus 9.however at the paprt where all the ports are, on top of the SSHD's i can feel that they're a bit warm

[iNSUFFZ]

old, chances are there's a reason they're not being used

[CaptainChaos37]

1 minute ago, iNSUFFZ said:

old, chances are there's a reason they're not being used

propably because my stuff is "too new" for the drives?

 

[iNSUFFZ]

1 minute ago, CaptainChaos025 said:

propably because my stuff is "too new" for the drives?

 

it is possible

[CaptainChaos37]

Just now, iNSUFFZ said:

it is possible

i mean, i've took them out of my old pc, a ShuttleX old pc thing.

[Lurick]

Those are definitely not SSHDs, they are regular hard drives, nothing solid state about them.

They only run at SATA 1.5Gbps speeds but SATA is supposed to be backwards compatible, it's possible that the ports don't drop down that low though but they are most likely just dead.

[KenjiUmino]

5 minutes ago, CaptainChaos025 said:

propably because my stuff is "too new" for the drives?

never seen a drive be "too old" to be detected.

 

there was a time when SATA II drives would not work on some older mainboards with SATA I controller and the drives had a jumper for this but i have never seen a SATA drive be too old for a controller. 

[CaptainChaos37]

Just now, KenjiUmino said:

never seen a drive be "too old" to be detected.

 

there was a time when SATA II drives would not work on some older mainboards with SATA I controller and the drives had a jumper for this but i have never seen a SATA drive be too old for a controller. 

well i'm not sure if that's the case