I have 4 drives in my computer, an 80 gig SSD with my OS, 2 500 gig SeaGate ST3500411SV HDD's, and a DVD drive.
My ST3500411SV drives are causing me numerous problems, because whenever I try to use them they become inaccessible 99% of the time. This includes writing to them, reading from them, or un-zipping .zip's. In fact, the only time they really seem to work is when whatever file I am reading from or writing to them is very small, usually <100 megabytes.
I was originally advised by someone that my power supply could be failing or simply just not cutting it when I am trying to use more than one drive, so I purchased a new power supply. I went from 500 watts to 630 watts. There was no change.
A ran SeaGate's SeaTools program and ran the full-length tests on both drives, both of which passed, so I don't think there is anything wrong with the drives themselves.
Any help here would be appreciated, and if there is any more information I could supply I would be more than willing.
Edit: If one of the drives becomes inaccessible, upon forcing a restart it vanishes altogether. It will stay vanished until I turn my computer off, and then on (not restarting it, but rather letting it completely power down for a second).
My ST3500411SV drives are causing me numerous problems, because whenever I try to use them they become inaccessible 99% of the time. This includes writing to them, reading from them, or un-zipping .zip's. In fact, the only time they really seem to work is when whatever file I am reading from or writing to them is very small, usually <100 megabytes.
I was originally advised by someone that my power supply could be failing or simply just not cutting it when I am trying to use more than one drive, so I purchased a new power supply. I went from 500 watts to 630 watts. There was no change.
A ran SeaGate's SeaTools program and ran the full-length tests on both drives, both of which passed, so I don't think there is anything wrong with the drives themselves.
Any help here would be appreciated, and if there is any more information I could supply I would be more than willing.
Edit: If one of the drives becomes inaccessible, upon forcing a restart it vanishes altogether. It will stay vanished until I turn my computer off, and then on (not restarting it, but rather letting it completely power down for a second).
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