The original post: /r/homelab by /u/CaNe2o1 on 2025-02-16 22:02:31.

Hey guys. I work in Tech for the last 10+ years and built several gaming PCs throughout the years. I know I’m missing something stupid (as is almost always the case when troubleshooting) but was hoping someone can help me.

I decided to repurpose my previous gaming PC setup to build a TrueNAS server. Bought a Jonsbo N5 case and I had a 5950x but it started freezing on my me for some reason. I decided to swap it out with my old 3900x and it stopped freezing.

I have 128 GB of DDR4 RAM and a 3090 for hardware encoding. I have 3 18TB hard drives I bought off Amazon a while back and it works perfect. Problem is with my new drives. I bought another 3 18TB hard drives (2 from ServerParts and 1 from Amazon). All Seagate drives. If I plug in the new drives, my ASUS bios won’t boot past the Press DEL or F2 screen. Completely frozen. Disconnect them and it boots to either TrueNAS or Windows.

I tried initializing them in Windows but get an I/O error message each time. I find it hard to believe all of them came bad and feel like I’m doing something wrong. Please help guys. Thank you in advance.

EDIT: My question is what can I be doing wrong to explain why my neither of my new drives are working in either in TrueNAS or Windows? I can see them in Disk Management in Windows but they won’t initialize due to I/O error message. Tried different bays in my Jonsbo N5 case. My existing drives work properly regardless which bay I use. Just an issue with all three of my new drives purchased through two different vendors.