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It's A Digital Disease!

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Resolved issue with disappearing Seagate Exos x18 16TB (zerobytes.monster)
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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Richard_Foresty on 2025-03-30 21:28:53.

Hey,

Just wanted to put it in here in case anyone gets the same issue as me.

I was getting Event id 157 "drive has been surprise removed" in Windows and had no idea why.

Tried turining off Seagate power features, re-formatting, changing drive letter - nothing helped.

True - I do not know if those other things could not have been parts of the issue.

However the thign that truly resoled it for me was disabling Write Caching in Windows.

Disabling write caching:

  • Open Device Manager.
  • Find your Seagate Exos drive under Disk Drives.
  • Right-click the drive and choose Properties.
  • Go to the Policies tab and uncheck Enable write caching on the device.

After that (at least so far) the issue no longer occured.

Hope it helps someone in the future.

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