LED remains stationary, until the 3rd click is heard (blinks slowly from that time). Drive also clicks once every 60 seconds but stops clicking after 3rd attempt (and keeps spinning). Tl dr version: Faulty My Passport drive, suspected damaged SA or access to SA impossible as it won't show its correct capacity in WD Drive Utilites and any VSC command is ineffective. I also do computer repair as a hobby and a service as long as it remains within my skills.
My external hard drives are all enclosures I buy in order to fit regular SATA drives in them and do not contain sensible data (or are used for backup purposes). Besides, I would never ever myself buy one of those solutions companies like Western Digital, Seagate or even Samsung or whatever want you to buy as an external hard drive. For those who might recognize that name, they probably wonder why I'm posting here since I should know the basic rules about data preservation and failure prevention.
