Hard Drive's randomly drop connection.

Clintman1 · Nov 11, 2014

After about 2 hours or so of heavy load on my computer. It will freeze up for about ten seconds. After those ten are over I look back to "My Computer" Only to find two of my storage drives are missing. One of them being a 220Gb SSD, and the other being a 1.0 Terabyte HDD. I can have the computer on for hours under a light load e.x, watching Youtube, chatting with steam, Etc, Etc. Then it just happens. One of the ways to get it to happen is transferring a large file from one drive to another. Doing so causes the source hard drive to disapear off the list. I can get a paste of my dxdiag if needed. I honestly think it may be related to my PSU.
Currently running a
AMD FX-8350 8 core @ 4.0Gz
GTX 760 4gb
Coolmax 720W PSU
8 Gigs Corair 2x4gb Sticks
Windows 7 64bit
2 HDD's 2 SSD's from differing makes.

Baumy15 · Nov 11, 2014

Clintman1 :

After about 2 hours or so of heavy load on my computer. It will freeze up for about ten seconds. After those ten are over I look back to "My Computer" Only to find two of my storage drives are missing. One of them being a 220Gb SSD, and the other being a 1.0 Terabyte HDD. I can have the computer on for hours under a light load e.x, watching Youtube, chatting with steam, Etc, Etc. Then it just happens. One of the ways to get it to happen is transferring a large file from one drive to another. Doing so causes the source hard drive to disapear off the list. I can get a paste of my dxdiag if needed. I honestly think it may be related to my PSU.
Currently running a
AMD FX-8350 8 core @ 4.0Gz
GTX 760 4gb
Coolmax 720W PSU
8 Gigs Corair 2x4gb Sticks
Windows 7 64bit
2 HDD's 2 SSD's from differing makes.

have you tried different sata ports?

SuperSoph_WD · Nov 12, 2014

Hey there, Clintman1!

I'd also suggest to try swapping the drives in different SATA ports.
The cause of this might also be the SATA cable itself. If it's failing and not supplying the HDD with enough power, the cable can cause this random disconnection from your system.
I'd maybe check for any SATA driver updates as well.

Keep me posted! Hope this helps!

SuperSoph_WD

PhatLloyd · Nov 12, 2014

Check to see if the drive dies, stops spinning or just disconnects. If it disconnects there might be a chance that it could also be the psu cables that cause the disconnection. Try swopping all cables, sata, psu, if the psu is modular it might also help o try a dofferent port.

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