Hello,
I recently picked up a ton of hard drives from an acquaintance.
8TB, 12TB, and 18TB Hard drives. He said he wiped them all and reformatted. He was using an external hard drive enclosure via USB, and took some photos with CDI (Crystal Disk Info). I received them and wanted to check CDI on them myself. Everything works fine except the 12TB models, no reading at all, theyre not even recognized in bios or CMD.
So I asked him to send me the CDI pictures of those 12TB models and they say Interface: UASP (instead of serial ATA like the rest of them). I googled it, and read that it means USB Attached SCSI Protocol, also read a little bit about it. But everything i'm reading basically makes it sound like this interface only applies to external hard drives. So why would this internal SATA hard drive have UASP listed as the interface, and is it possible to convert it to standard interface to use as an internal hard drive with direct sata to my motherboard ?
the 12TB hard drives in question are these: they are from a datacenter.
https://www.amazon.com/HGST-Ultrastar-HUH721212ALE600-3-5-Inch-Internal/dp/B07PF1TVND
Any input appreciated!
thanks