I purchased a USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Lay-Flat Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD and have been trying to use it with a 4TB Seagate IronWolf disk on a Windows 11 PC. The problem that I am having is that it is never able to finish copying a 2TB file to the disk . At some point the drive becomes unresponsive and the Windows performance monitor shows the activity on the drive at 100% but zero read/write IO. I've tried this several times on the same 4TB disk and it has failed at a different point each time, between 30% and 75% of the transfer. I've also tried with a different 4TB Seagate IronWolf drive in this enclosure and have had the exact same problem. Both 4TB disks appear healthy from chkdsk.
@William Gorman There should be no compatibility issues outside of rare cases with some shucked drives. It's possible the drive and/or station is overheating.
Hey, that kind of 100% activity with zero throughput would drive me crazy too, especially after restarting huge transfers over and over. When I ran into a similar storage issue, I used an check essay for AI free to break down possible causes like power delivery limits, USB controller hiccups, and file system errors. My first attempts at troubleshooting were random and didn’t help, but after following a structured checklist it became easier to isolate the bottleneck. It saved me hours of guessing and helped me test each factor step by step instead of just hoping the copy would finish.
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