Was watching tv the other day and went to add something to be recorded and got an error that no hard drive was installed even though there actually was a WD Blue SA510 SATA SSD (1 TB) inside. I disconnected tablotv and removed the drive. I put the drive in a hard drive cradle attached to my Mac and nothing mounted there.
I believe when I originally installed the drive it was working but can’t recall if I ever actually tested it.
My HD cradle / Mac setup is confirmed working with 3.5’ Spinning Hard Drives
I am going to reassemble the Quad with the drive and power it back on to see if it magically starts working, but I doubt that will be the case.
Any troubleshooting help would be appreciated. I am wondering if the drive is dead or there is an issue with the Tablo. All reading on the site suggests that my drive should be compatible, but now I am second guessing it.
I reinstalled the Hard Drive and connected an external. It’s only recognizing the external drive right now the best I can tell. Not sure if it suppose to be able to work with both an internal and external.
Your Tablo uses EXT4 format (a Linux format) which I know that PC’s can’t natively read. I don’t know if your Mac can natively read it or not, but that may be the reason you weren’t able to read it.
There are utilities that can be run on a PC to read this format, so I’m assuming there may also be something you can do on a Mac. Sorry I can’t provide anything more to try.
Those SA510 WD drives have a bad reputation for failing. They’re cheap for a reason. If you can’t get it working in the Tablo it might be wise to test it on a computer to see if it works there.