Hard drive sometimes disappears

froode5

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Oct 10, 2016
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(sorry for my bad english, this problem forces me to use it )

Hello tom's hardware people.
This is my first thread here. I came to ask you why my third hard drive sometimes disappear.
I have 2 SSD drives. (1 Samsung Evo 250 gb and 1 Kingston 120gb) and I have 1 TB Mechanical drive.
My SO (Windows 10) is installed on the Samsung Evo drive. I use the Mechanical drive to save my work/education data and my third drive (the kingston one) is being used to save games, steam, blizzard and things like that.
The problem comes here. One or two months ago I realized that the Kingston drive disappeared but I didn't try to solve it. After two days it appeared again (without any reason). And this kind of activity started being normal to me because as I was very occupied I couldn't play games.
The last week I tried to install League of Legends in the short period of time that I was able to use the drive but in the middle of the installation it disappear. I assumed that it was something in the SATA port or cable so i change it like 20 times in the last week and the problem only solves for 1 hour and still happening.

I remember these specs:
GTX 970 Asus trix.
16 gb ram.
Corsair air 540
power supply 750w
i7 4770k
Asus motherboard 3.1 (I don't remember exactly model)
 
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Hi there froode5,

That is really unpleasant. :(

First of all, it would be nice to back up the most important data stored on the SSD.

Apart from that, this sounds like some sort of a connection related issue. My suggestion would be to install the SSD on the place of one of the other two, working drives. Use the same cables as well.

In case the issue persists, then you can run some brand specific testing tool on the SSD. Also, it will not hurt to update your MOBO's drivers.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD :)
Hi there froode5,

That is really unpleasant. :(

First of all, it would be nice to back up the most important data stored on the SSD.

Apart from that, this sounds like some sort of a connection related issue. My suggestion would be to install the SSD on the place of one of the other two, working drives. Use the same cables as well.

In case the issue persists, then you can run some brand specific testing tool on the SSD. Also, it will not hurt to update your MOBO's drivers.

Cheers,
D_Know_WD :)
 
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