CPU-AMD FX-6300
MOBO-Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0
240GB sandisk SSD (holds Windows 7 Professional Operating System)
(2) WD Black 6TB hard drives (for plex media server)
8GBRAM
I keep having one of my 6TB drives disappear on me. I have two 6TB drives that I use for my plex media server. One is for TV shows, and the other is for movies. My movie drive keeps disappearing. It comes back when I restart the computer and will stick around for anywhere between 30 minutes and a few days. I have replaced the Sata cable twice, tried different power cables, tried different sata ports, ran Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics and the drive was fine. Both 6TB drives are maybe a little over a year old. At this point I don't know if it is a motherboard problem, but the board is new as well. I bought it brand new maybe a couple months before I did the hard drives. Could it be a power issue? My power supply is a Kentek GL-KTPS-700. It is 700w. I am not really sure how much power is enough power. I added a video card a few weeks before the problems started happening. Could the extra power be causing issues? I will remove it and see if it makes a difference. On another note this is not the first time I have lost hard drives. It actually happened maybe 8 months ago with the other 6TB drive. It eventually went away and now it is the other drive. Not sure what is going on. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
**Update**
I removed my video card to test the power theory. I booted back up. Both hard drives were seen during start up. I checked again after bootup and all of them were there. I checked like 20 minutes after that again and now my TV shows drive was missing. Before it was my movies drive. Not sure what the heck is going on.
MOBO-Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 6.0
240GB sandisk SSD (holds Windows 7 Professional Operating System)
(2) WD Black 6TB hard drives (for plex media server)
8GBRAM
I keep having one of my 6TB drives disappear on me. I have two 6TB drives that I use for my plex media server. One is for TV shows, and the other is for movies. My movie drive keeps disappearing. It comes back when I restart the computer and will stick around for anywhere between 30 minutes and a few days. I have replaced the Sata cable twice, tried different power cables, tried different sata ports, ran Western Digital Data LifeGuard Diagnostics and the drive was fine. Both 6TB drives are maybe a little over a year old. At this point I don't know if it is a motherboard problem, but the board is new as well. I bought it brand new maybe a couple months before I did the hard drives. Could it be a power issue? My power supply is a Kentek GL-KTPS-700. It is 700w. I am not really sure how much power is enough power. I added a video card a few weeks before the problems started happening. Could the extra power be causing issues? I will remove it and see if it makes a difference. On another note this is not the first time I have lost hard drives. It actually happened maybe 8 months ago with the other 6TB drive. It eventually went away and now it is the other drive. Not sure what is going on. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks.
**Update**
I removed my video card to test the power theory. I booted back up. Both hard drives were seen during start up. I checked again after bootup and all of them were there. I checked like 20 minutes after that again and now my TV shows drive was missing. Before it was my movies drive. Not sure what the heck is going on.
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