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UPDATE #2: Not sure if anyone is still here, but I decided to try a few different things before calling Seagate. The first was to try different SATA and SATA Power cables. My SSD worked just fine, so I decided to switch my SSD and HDD's SATA and SATA Power cables. I noticed the system would not boot. The motherboard screen would show but it would quickly thereafter say something along the lines of, "connect boot device and press any button." So I Determined that either the SATA cable or the SATA power cable was the issue. Thus I used the SATA Power cable in question on my SSD and again the system would not boot, thus causing me to believe it is an issue with the SATA Power cable coming from the PSU. I am now using the different SATA Power cable and both drives seem to work fine. Not sure how to test it exactly, but as @Dutch-stoner mentioned I downloaded HD-tune and ran some tests, I'm totally new to testing hard drives but during the tests the drive did not disappear. I also tried some practical tests like copping an 11 GB folder then a 75 GB folder over form an external hard drive. Both times there was a consistent transfer speed of about 95-105 MB/s. I have also been downloading Arkham City from Steam which is about 17 GB's and there has been no disk write errors and the drive is yet to disappear. SO it would appear that I am in the clear for now, however I;'ll monitor it for the week continuing to push it see what happens. Thanks for the help.

UPDATE: So, I've managed to install Overwatch successfully on the drive and play it without any hitches, same with FTL and Jet Set Radio (via Steam). However, when I try to copy GTA V from my SSD onto the Hard Drive (using these steps) and have Steam detect it so I wont have to reinstall it, the drive disappears. Other than that I seem ok, for now.

It does show up in My Computer, but when I try to install a game it disappears, and I have to use Disk manager to rescan and find it. However when its found again. Also I've attached a screenshot of my Disk Manager below.

Damn, I had a feeling, but was hoping it was something I was doing wrong, esp. since you have to pay the shipping when RMA-ing to Seagate.

Yea, used a GUID partition, gave it a name and everything.

I was using a Seagate Barracuda 1 TB (mechanical) hard drive for the last two years, and it started to fail last month. As such I used my warranty and had it replaced. However, when I received the replacement drive (which I noticed was a "recertified" drive). Unfortunately after plugging it in and restarting the drive did not show up, however after scanning for discs in the "Disc Manager" it showed up so I formatted it and started to use it. However after trying install a game (via Battle.net) the drive just disappears and only shows up after scanning in Disc Manager. I've tried to use new SATA cables and plugging it into different SATA ports on the mobo. Any ideas on whats going on? Thanks.

Just a hypothetical:if I've used all my HDD slots, and mobo SATA ports, and the installed HDD are filled.

Hello, I have some experience to PC building, however not much in the way of storage servers. What I would like to do is build a server with a few hard drives in it, and then connect it to my network to access from any PC. However my biggest concern is scalability for the future. Because I will be storing a wide variety of things on the server (RAW photos being among the most frequent and space consuming), I was wondering if in the future my server becomes full -- or near full -- can I build a second server and connect it to the first so that it can "pick up" where the first server left off, and have both servers act as one large storage solution?

Yea, I have a spare HDMI, so I can use two monitors using DVI-D and then HDMI to the TV without problem? Just asking because I was researching triple monitor/ eyefinity setups where you need to have at least one monitor on display port.

I currently have a dual monitor setup, where the desktop is extended. Both of which are connected to my R9 270 using a DVI-D. I would like to connect my pc to my TV and have it mirror my main display as that is where games show up when you open them. I am thinking about buying a 50 ft. HDMI cable to do this job, however I am uncertain if I need a display port cable since I am going to be working with three display outputs to one GPU. Any one know if this will work?

Right now my system is able to push around 40-70 frames for most of the games, and keep the frame rate steady. And judging from responses, an R9 290x would fit ok into my system (with little bottlenecking). However, do you think it willl be able to push consistent frame rates across three monitors given my CPU. I'm not looking for 120 fps, but I'm talking around the ball park of ~40 fps.

So the R9 290x will have to spread its resources across the three monitors, thus allowing it to keep up with the CPU, or am I off base?

Nothing really specific. I'll usually play a bit of War Thunder, some Civ 5, Microsoft Flight Sim, and a few AAA games (Bioshock, Borderlands), as well as some Arma 3 (which I'm certain no GPU I choose will handle it perfectly)

I'm currently using an Gigabyte R9 270 OC Edition for my gaming PC. However, I am looking into expanding to a triple monitor setup. My question is, on a budget should I add another R9 270 in crossfire, or would I get better performance from an upgrade? If I do upgrade I am looking at purchasing an R9 290X (just one, no crossfire). My end game is to have eyefinity for gaming. I'm not sure how much this matters, but I am using an AMD Athlon X4 Quad Core Processor. If I were to keep this CPU would an R9 290x be an overkill? Thanks.