I bought a few WD Gold 8TB drives and am having problems with my BIOS recognizing them. They all make a chirping noise for several seconds when first powered on no matter if the SATA cable is connected or not. When I go into the BIOS they do not show up. I can use the same power and SATA cable and my BIOS will recognize my older WD 2TB drive and a 8TB Toshiba drive.
Upon Windows 10 startup, I can see the WD Gold drive in Device Manager. Trying to initialize with Drive Manager gives a I/O error message. WD Dashboard will run and sees the drive. It won’t successfully run any SMART test or successfully generate a report.
Any ideas? I feel if my BIOS would recognize it, my Windows problems would go away.
Drive: WD Gold HA750 Enterprise Class HDD - WDC WD8004FRYZ-01VAEB0
MBoard: Gigabyte Z270N-WIFI
