Hello. I have a computer (windows 10 home, i9-9900k, 1080ti, z390 asrock taichi ultimate mobo, 2x 8gb ram) that I am trying to install new hard drives in. I currently have an SSD and a HDD and I am wanting to install an additional 3 2 tb drives, possibly with storage spaces raid 5 like setup on the new drives, for video editing.
I ordered 3 seagate BarraCuda 2 TB 6 Gb/s 7200 RM 256 mb cache hard drives from amazon, plugged them in, undetected in BIOS and disk manager. Tried plugging one in at a time, same story. Tried unplugging my existing HDD, and plugging those same cables (power and data) into each one of the new drives seperately and same story nothing detected. I figured something must have gone wrong in shipping and sent them back and replaced them with 3 2 TB 5400 rpm WD blue drives from amazon. Same story on those drives, tried every sata port on my MB and even with the cables that work fine on both my other drives, nothing was detected. Tried plugging one of these drives into a different desktop and still, nothing detected.
Gave up on amazon, figured maybe they don't know how to ship things and the drives are getting damaged in shipping. Sent them back again and ordered 3 of the same WD Blue 2 TB off newegg and none of those work either, all the same troubleshooting steps. That means 9 hard drives and I haven't gotten 1 to work, obviously I must be doing something wrong but for the life of me I can not figure out what.
Other troubleshooting steps I've taken besides trying a separate computer, trying different ports, trying known good cables, unplugged everything (all USB's and my PCI USB expansion card thing) and ran with the bare minimum of my boot drive and 1 at a time each of the new drives, is that I've also updated my motherboard bios from 1.2 to 4.3 (tried this last as it scared me the most). I have also tried different settings in BIOS such as turning off ACHI and trying that, turning on/off hot swap, and basically anything I thought might make a difference.
Only hint I've had so far is "dr debug" on my motherboard which gives error codes is giving me an A6 or A9 code while I'm in BIOS which according to the manual means there's an issue with an IDE or SATA device. I've probably installed 10+ drives in my life successfully before this and never had any issues. Can anyone think of anything I'm overlooking? I appreciate your time.