Cant write to hdd in external enclosure

hillelslovak

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Corsair Carbide Spec Alpha case, i5 6600, 16 gb g skill ddr4 ram, Asrock H170M Pro4 mobo, R9 380x 4gb gpu, 2xToshiba 3tb hdd, 1xSeagate Barracuda 3tb.

Ok, I got this enclosure: http://

I have an old seagate 1.5 tb that messed up, and is in RAW format. I also have my still in warranty Toshiba 3tb that needs to be rma for making a low rumbling noise that I hate. I am in the process of putting everything from the seagate onto the two 3tb drives I have in my rig now. I planned on taking everything from the seagate onto the 3tb drives, then putting the files on the 3tb toshiba in the enclosure, then formatting the old seagate, and putting everything back onto it until I rma my toshiba and get a replacement.

However, whenever I try to write files from one of my internal drives onto the toshiba with the enclosure, it starts at around 50mbs per second for maybe 3 secs, then drops down to about nothing. After a minute or two, the drive disconnects, and I get a Error 0x8007045D, saying there is an I/O device error. Also, for some reason, I only get 1 usb 3.0 connection that even works. The way the case 3.0 ports connect to my mobo is the standard two port plug. I dont even know why only one is working either.

However, I put connect the enclosure toshiba into one of the mobos usb 2.0 ports, and it's writing to the drive fine, around 35mb per sec.

I have disabled the usb sleep suspend setting in the power options, I have the latest intel usb drivers, yet I cant figure out as to why this is happening only in this port. I wrote to an external 1tb seagate drive I have, and wrote probably 150 gb to it on the 3.0 port just fine.

So why is this?

EDIT - Tried the enclosured hdd to the 3.0 hubs in the mobo, same issue. Tried in all the 2.0 ports, now it wont work with them either.
 

hillelslovak

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I checked the drivers, and they are up to date, acording to my device manager, and the intel driver update tool they provided.

Could it be this enclosure? It was fine taking information off of my seagate which was formatted as RAW. The only problem seems to be writing to the drive within the enclosure. I left it on for 7-8 hours straight while I was recovering data off it with Recuva. Though once I try to copy to it, bam, speed slows to a crawl, and within a minute I get the I/O error, and it disconnects.
 

Jesse_20

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it's possible you have a bad sata cable/port on the internal drive, or that it's in bad shape as well. Make sure the external is seated firmly in the enclosure also.
If it's stalling only when trying to read a specific drive (and not all of them), then it's the internal drive causing problems and not the external. Make sure the external is also showing the proper free space in disk management (i.e, you have room for the new data). Anytime you try reading from a bad drive, you can encounter hangups which might throw errors.

One other test you can try is to put a different drive into the external and see if the problem persists, meaning it is definitely the enclosure.
 

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Ok, I have only tried writing to one of my internal drives within the enclosure. I will finish getting everything off my seagate, format it, then try to put stuff back on it, to see if that drive cant be written to within the enclosure as well. Will report when I do it, which will probably take until tomorrow.
 

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Well, I loade dup my old seagate in the pc, reformatted it, shut the rig off, took the drive out and put it in the enclosure. That drive was written to without any problems. Tried the under warranty toshiba drive, and alas, still does not behave when being written to. it starts at around 5mbsec, stops, freezes the windows explorer, then afte rabout 30 seconds the drive disappears, and I get the I/O error. So, I should just send this back to Toshiba for a replacement, no?
 

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