- Dec 22, 2013
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So, I've been having some problems with my hard drives.
To start things off here is my computer specs:
Motherboard: AsRock FX Extreme 3
CPU: Vishera FX-8350
GPU: EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
RAM: 2x G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (8GB total)
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Power Supply: Raidmax Thunder v2 Bronze - 835W
Storage: 1x Kingston SSD 60GB, 2x Seagate SSHD 1TB, 1x Toshiba External HD 500GB
Starting about a year ago my Hybrid drives stopped functioning correctly, read/write errors and disappearing/reappearing. Thinking my hard drives were failing I had them replaced, however the two newly refurbished drives continued to display the same symptoms as the last pair of hard drives. I began to think that the problem was my motherboard, to test this I took my SSD (which contains my OS and has been working fine this entire time, and still is) and tried it in every port...needless to say it worked in all ports. So me and my buddy did some troubleshooting and we figured the problem was the sata cables. Recently I finaly got a new pair of sata cables and when testing them I noticed that neither hard drive would show up when I had both of them supplied with power at the same time, yet they would both show up when only one was powered at a time. To work around this I used a second power cable from the same power supply and then they both would show up, yet I would still get read/write errors when downloading or playing a game. During this entire time I've been using my external hard drive as my primary storage for my games, etc. A few days ago my external hard drive started disappearing/reappearing making me think my computer doesn't have much life left in it. At this point I'm pretty much ready to throw the whole computer except the GPU in the dumpster and call it a day lol...if only I could afford to do so. Obviously my suspicion lies with my power supply, but I have yet to definatively prove that to be the case. So anybody have any idea what my problem might be?
To start things off here is my computer specs:
Motherboard: AsRock FX Extreme 3
CPU: Vishera FX-8350
GPU: EVGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 760
RAM: 2x G.Skill Ripjaw 4GB (8GB total)
OS: Windows 10 Pro
Power Supply: Raidmax Thunder v2 Bronze - 835W
Storage: 1x Kingston SSD 60GB, 2x Seagate SSHD 1TB, 1x Toshiba External HD 500GB
Starting about a year ago my Hybrid drives stopped functioning correctly, read/write errors and disappearing/reappearing. Thinking my hard drives were failing I had them replaced, however the two newly refurbished drives continued to display the same symptoms as the last pair of hard drives. I began to think that the problem was my motherboard, to test this I took my SSD (which contains my OS and has been working fine this entire time, and still is) and tried it in every port...needless to say it worked in all ports. So me and my buddy did some troubleshooting and we figured the problem was the sata cables. Recently I finaly got a new pair of sata cables and when testing them I noticed that neither hard drive would show up when I had both of them supplied with power at the same time, yet they would both show up when only one was powered at a time. To work around this I used a second power cable from the same power supply and then they both would show up, yet I would still get read/write errors when downloading or playing a game. During this entire time I've been using my external hard drive as my primary storage for my games, etc. A few days ago my external hard drive started disappearing/reappearing making me think my computer doesn't have much life left in it. At this point I'm pretty much ready to throw the whole computer except the GPU in the dumpster and call it a day lol...if only I could afford to do so. Obviously my suspicion lies with my power supply, but I have yet to definatively prove that to be the case. So anybody have any idea what my problem might be?
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