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I was fortunate to get in my possession 7, 8TB SAS drives that I would like to utilize in a home data storage server project I'm planning. I'm going to use an old dell precision 3630 that i got still new in box plus some minor upgrades for the project and I want to connect 3 of the SAS drives for a raid 1 set up in windows server and keep the other 4 drives as spares. The thing is, with the SAS drives I don't know where i would even start in getting to connect them to an ordinary desktop. I would like to utilize their full duplex ability and rated 12Gb/spec speeds even thought its super overkill. (I mainly want to expose myself to the technology first hand and learn about it more). To my knowledge i would need a PCIe expansion card to do that but will any work? Also how what kind of connector would i use? All I know is I'll need a SFF-8482 connector for the drive end. More insight would be appreciated, I don't mind buying expansion cards or cables. Thank you.

My dad wanted to move to ssd for his computer cause his hdd was getting slow and as preparation I put a backup on my gaming pc just in case using minitools backup. Afterwards windows asked to format and I did the format and the files corrupted. after a recovery a ton of files were lost so I went to the backup. now I'm hopefully waiting as I'm putting the backup data back on the hdd and wondering if there's a way to not have it formatted on my dads pc or a way to keep all the data on it and have it visible as it has business files on it (It will be still transferring files for the next hour from the time this is posted)

i had a dual boot pc one with windows other on kali i needed disk space so i tried deleting the kali system but now it dosnt come up in file manager any help??

Budget (including currency): around $150 USD Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Storing/editing YT videos. Other details: I make YouTube videos, but my old hand-me-down 5400 2.5” HDD is anything but fast (120MB/s Seq. Read, 90MB/s Seq. Write, 2-4MB/s Random Read, 1-3MB/s Random Write), not to mention only 1TB, which won’t last forever. I plan to eventually upgrade, and I want to get something that I’ll keep for a long time. Thanks! PC Specs: AMD Ryzen 5 “5625G” 6 core, 12 thread, 4.7GHz all-core. (OC) MSI Gaming X Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6G @2175GHz (OC) 16GB DDR4-3200 CL16 T-Force Vulcan Z RAM 500GB WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe SSD 500GB WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS Gaming Motherboard 1TB WD Blue HDD (old) 250GB Hatachi DeskStar HDD (old) Aresgame AGV750 750w Semi-Modular PSU DeepCool Matrexx 50 Add-RGB 4F ATX computer case Cooler Master ML280 Mirror 280mm ARGB Liquid Cooler Peripherals: ASUS VP249QGR 144Hz 1080p Display Acer H243H 60Hz 1080p Display Redragon K556 Devarajas Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Logitech G502 Hero Gaming Mouse Blue Snowball ICE Microphone Creative Pebble Desktop Speakers

I am having issues with windows failing to boot when I have mechanical drives plugged in ... The drives are about a year old, and at first there was no problem, then windows 11 pushed an update (not sure which one) and my system started to either hang when booting or with one of the drives missing (which one would be random/no lost data when they would connect). This got so frustrating that I rolled back to windows 10 a few months ago & that fixed it ... Then two days ago windows installs an update and my hard drives are now broken with 10: can anyone answer me why this is happening & how I can fix it? I have my C drive installed on a 1tb SSD, a 500gb M.2 drive for my modern games, and then I have 2x 2tb mechanical HDDs I use for low importance / high volume stuff like my GOG library, movies, and music. I did notice that Windows is labeling the HDDs as "removable storage" despite being directly connected the SATA header.

I want to know, Can I set up RAID on SSD and RAID on HDD separately in a single system? Yes, I don't want RAID on SSD and HDD together cause it affects the speed of the drives. I want both speed and reliability on drives. I use my RIG for gaming and other productivity purposes Like Editing Video on Premier Pro, Using AutoCAD for Designing 3D models, Illustrator and Photoshop for Photo editing, Etc. The motherboard that I am using is Z790 Proart wifi. 3 out of 4 M.2 slot has been used for keeping the 8 SATA ports active. 6 SATA port is used for HDDs(Barracuda Pro 10TB) 2 SATA port is(will be) used for SSDs(Empty{Don't know which SATA SSD is reliable in the market at the time of writing}) The SATA SSD will be used as Cache Drive. HDDs are for Bulk storage until I get a NAS in my hand. So, The objectives are to run the M.2s at UNRAID for Maximum performance, SATA SSDs as Cache, HDDs for bulk storage for completed projects. I also need to know which SATA SSD is reliable. Thank you so much for your attention and participation.

Here is a screenshot of the "Optimise Drives" app from windows. It seems confusing to me as I was told that SMR drives don't need to be defragmented, because of their shingled layer storage? Is there anything that I should do to remove the fragmentation?

Hey, I need a laptop for school, so I dug up a 4210U I5 HP, we didn´t use it because it took an hour to startup. I put another HDD in it and it works fine, but a bit slow on startup (2min), would an SSD be worth it(50euro´s)? or is the machine to old. Take into consideration that I am on a really tight budget(student). Kind regards L

I had a 240 SSD in my pc and so it filled up pretty fast. That's why I bought an external HDD. Having moved a few games to it and noticing that they do load slower overall. I obviously knew that was going to happen, but I want to know if something like Star Wars The Old Republic which is taking up a lot of the space would have manageable waiting times on the loading screens. Given that the HDD is specced at 5400rpm and connected via USB 3.0. Thank you in advance.

My friend gave me his broken laptop to try to get the files from the HDD that's inside. The laptop didn't boot so I took out the drive and connected it to my laptop with a SATA to USB cable. I couldn't access the drive, error message: "E:\ is not accessible. The parameter is incorrect." After watching a few videos, i decided to do a chkdsk on cmd. It took like 12h and now it looks like it's complete but I still can't access the drive yet. What do I have to do? Log: C:\Users\User1>chkdsk E: /f /r The type of the file system is NTFS. CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 5)... 0 percent complete. (6 of 256 file records processed) Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "") from file record segment 6. 5 percent complete. (131 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 131 is unreadable. 5 percent complete. (136 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 136 is unreadable. 5 percent complete. (137 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 137 is unreadable. 5 percent complete. (148 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 148 is unreadable. 5 percent complete. (152 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 152 is unreadable. 6 percent complete. (156 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 156 is unreadable. 6 percent complete. (157 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 157 is unreadable. 6 percent complete. (158 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 158 is unreadable. 6 percent complete. (159 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 159 is unreadable. 6 percent complete. (164 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 164 is unreadable. 6 percent complete. (165 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 165 is unreadable. 7 percent complete. (180 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 180 is unreadable. 7 percent complete. (184 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 184 is unreadable. 8 percent complete. (216 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 216 is unreadable. 8 percent complete. (224 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 224 is unreadable. 8 percent complete. (225 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 225 is unreadable. 8 percent complete. (228 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 228 is unreadable. 8 percent complete. (229 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 229 is unreadable. 8 percent complete. (230 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 230 is unreadable. 9 percent complete. (231 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 231 is unreadable. 9 percent complete. (232 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 232 is unreadable. 9 percent complete. (233 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 233 is unreadable. 9 percent complete. (234 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 234 is unreadable. 9 percent complete. (235 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 235 is unreadable. 9 percent complete. (236 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 236 is unreadable. 9 percent complete. (237 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 237 is unreadable. 9 percent complete. (238 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 238 is unreadable. 9 percent complete. (239 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 239 is unreadable. 9 percent complete. (240 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 240 is unreadable. 9 percent complete. (241 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 241 is unreadable. 9 percent complete. (242 of 256 file records processed) File record segment 242 is unreadable. 256 file records processed. File verification completed. 0 large file records processed. 31 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 0 reparse records processed. CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 5)... 10 percent complete. (137 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 140 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (142 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 141 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (145 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 144 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (146 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 145 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (149 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 160 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (165 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 168 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (181 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 188 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (201 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 200 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (202 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 201 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (205 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 204 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (213 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 212 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (214 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 213 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (217 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 220 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (249 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 248 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (250 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 249 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (251 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 250 is unreadable. 10 percent complete. (252 of 272 index entries processed) File record segment 251 is unreadable. 272 index entries processed. Index verification completed. 0 unindexed files scanned. 0 unindexed files recovered. CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 5)... 256 file SDs/SIDs processed. Security descriptor verification completed. Inserting data attribute into file 6. 9 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying file data (stage 4 of 5)... 240 files processed. File data verification completed. CHKDSK is verifying free space (stage 5 of 5)... 122077875 free clusters processed. Free space verification is complete.

I currently have a Gigabyte GA-H270-HD3 on BIOS Version F8, a Samsung 980 500GB M.2 SSD, and 2 Seagate BarraCuda 2TB HDDs. I want to use the SSD as my boot drive, and the HDDs in RAID 1 as my storage drive, as the title says, but everything I've tried so far has broken something. The most prominent thing I've noticed so far is that for RAID, my motherboard requires BIOS > Peripherals > SATA and RST Configuration > SATA Mode Selection to be set to "Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration" but when I select that, Windows gives me a "Inaccessable Boot Device" code and I can't boot into my SSD. When I set it to "AHCI," I can boot into my SSD just fine. Any suggestions for how I can get this working? Should I just use software "RAID" through Windows instead? I've heard that software RAID is slower, so I would rather use hardware if possible.

so i have 28tb in hdd's, and i heard on a linus video i can cashe them with and m.2? i have 3-2tb samsung 970 pros in my system, im just wondering how to go about it? i tried googling it but most of the time its just a bunch of people arguing weather you can do it or not. all information would be super helpful. thanks!

I have a PC which is mounted to standing electric desk. I have two hard drives in my PC. I read that it is not safe to move PC while it is powers on. Is it true even if I move my PC up and down slowly?

Hi guys, I’ve run into a weird situation. I tried using external hard drives and they didn’t show up. I tried different three, with different cables and on two different PCs. They show up for a second and then they restart over and over again. Does anybody know how to solve this? Thanks in advance.

Hi, I have a pretty interesting problem that I have no ideas how to solve I have one HDD and one SSD in my computer. The system is installed on the SSD I had to replace old HDD and just plugged it out. Then I plugged in a new one. But when I tried to boot the PC I encountered intel boot agent error "media check failure, check cables" What should I do?

Hey everyone, I'm having a problem with both my HDD's at the moment in which they will show up in disk management so I can allocate the drives but then after a day or 2 suddenly the drives are no longer recognised by windows and I have to re-add them through disk management. Both these drives are less than 2 years old and were working fine up until about 2 weeks ago. Tried a new Sata power cable aswell as different sata ports on the motherboard. I dont think its drive failure because both started doing it at the exact same time however i've tried a couple of things including a full format of both drives and only using one of the HDD's at a time. Not sure where the problem is coming from and I'm a little out of ideas so any help would be appreciated. The two hard drives I have are a WD Blue 2TB and a Toshiba X300 4TB. I also have an M.2 but that has been performing fine. Other PC specs Asus prime x570 pro Ryzen 3800x Gigabyte 2070 Super windforce OC 4 x 8GB DDR4 Corsair RGB ram

Hi everyone! I have been a long time fan of LTT and this is officially my first post as a forum member! I'm having issues with my internal HDD and am no expert in computing by any means. In fact I am looking to make a better build that will allow for better performance once I start my full time job. Here are my computer specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Cores GPU: Nvidia GTX 1660 SUPER Main Drive: 1 TB SSD - no issues at all Second drive: Seagate ST2000MD008 spec sheet found here. Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M-DS3H-CF (basic bitch board) RAM: I think crucial 16GB @ 3600 MHz but for some reason task manager shows it at 2133 (probably some tuning thing I don't understand) So now to the problem, my hard drive is very very slow and I barely use it. I bought it for the purposes of backing up my college cloud storage (about 90GB) onto a hard disk. Anytime I try to copy to this drive I get my entire PC freezing up and the disk usage goes to 100% and the speeds go down to 0. I am not sure why this is happening but according to the spec sheet, connected via SATA it should read at the minimum 1.5 Gb/s which is ~180 MB/s, but I get 0 MB/s and sometimes it jumps up and down between smaller KB/s speeds. Does anyone know why this is happening? Things I have tried so far: optimizing drive and defragmenting, but that doesn't make sense as it is a basically clean drive since I can't get anything to even go onto it without taking days. Any help is appreciated and any guidance throughout fixing this would be a HUGE help!

I have a 2TB external HDD by Toshiba. Amazon Link of product I have been using it for about 4 years. O never used it much, just for occasional storage of stuff. I once tried to play warzone through it, as my lap only has a 250gb SSD (this may/may not help in diagnosing the problem) Anyway, from yesterday onwards, I cannot essentially copy anything FROM the drive. It bursts for some moment but then essentially dies down.(Image 1) But I am able to copy anything and everything INTO the drive at almost decent speeds, still it dies down for a second and raise backup immediately, unlike the READ speeds I looked in task manager, but nothing major is running that can potentially cause this, but even at this point, the drive usage is full, but there is ZERO I/Ops For reference, this drive had consistent speeds for read and write of about 80-100Mbps during the initial days. Here are the other resource usages, if it helps The solutions I have tried: 1. Excluded the dive from Windows Defender antivirus 2. Formatted the entire drive ones, still this is the state Any advice would be welcome. _____________EDITS and UPDATE_______________ This is what shows when my transfer fails completely I have another External HDD also by Toshiba Amazon link of that drive, I'll try some tests with that to to rule out is the issue is with 1. cable 2. Laptop 3. Hdd itself : I'll update the results here. ______RESULTS___________ 1. cable : Swapped the cable, still has the problem 2. laptop : Transferred files to and from the second HDD with 100+Mbps speed - so not the problem of laptop or ports 3. Hdd itself : So the problem rules down to the Hdd itself. Any suggestions will be welcome.

I've build a new AMD PC and recently come across this problem where Windows thinks all or some HDD/SSD as a removable device and saw some places where you have to fiddle around with the Registry settings to make them 'Disappear'. BUT! There is another solution I've found. Go to the BIOS and look for SATA Configuration or settings. If Hot plug/SATA Port Hot Plug is enabled by default, Disable it. Save setting and restart and Problem solved. Hope this helps!

So I bought a Seagate Ironwolf 8TB NAS drive and am trying to install it in my PC. For some reason, the drive does not spin up when the PC is turned on and the UEFI/BIOS shows the SATA port on the motherboard is not being used or connected to anything (My 2 SSDs show up fine). I confirmed the SATA Data and SATA Power cables work just fine (with my SSD drives). I also tried a MOLEX to SATA adapter to power the HDD. Nothing. I tried to install it on my brother's PC using the same cables and ports he uses for his working WD 6TB Drive. Nothing. I have had this happen with 2 other drives and I asked for replacements each time thinking 1 drive must be faulty, the second one was a one-off fluke but now the third isn't working either and it has to be something with my PC by this point I think. Like 99.99% sure that 3 drives I get in a row are not faulty. Oh the only time it spun up and I confirmed it was a working drive was when I chucked it into an external enclosure and turned it on. With the enclosure it worked but it could only read 4TB because the USB driver of the enclosure is very old and I need it as an internal drive anyway. Can somebody help me figure this out, please?

I recently upgraded my RAM from 2 X 8GB sticks (16GB) to 2 X 16GB sticks (32GB) and after a few minutes figuring out how to make it work, I troubleshooted it and it runs fine. The problem I have is that it seems like immediately after the upgrade, my WD external hard drive seemed to fail. I still see the light on the hard drive and can feel it power up but every time I try to open file explorer my computer freezes totally; as soon as I unplug the drive, everything is back to normal. The weird thing is that it seems like my computer detects the drive as it shows up in "Windows - X > Device Manager > Disk Drives". This is the only evidence that it's detected by the computer, it does not show up in file explorer and even if I try to interact with it ie. going into "This PC" to look at all my drives, it freezes the computer, even though it doesn't even show up. Im really confused and could use some help. Current Specs: OS Name Microsoft Windows 10 Home Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 3601 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0609, 3/23/2017 BaseBoard Manufacturer ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. BaseBoard Product PRIME H270-PLUS Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 32.0 GB RAM CORSAIR VENGEANCE LPX DDR4 2 X 16GB | 32 GB 2400MHz Previous RAM XPG ADATA DDR4 2 X 8GB | 16 GB 2400 MHz

I bought a brand new 8TB Seagate Ironwolf ~2 weeks ago and started transferring files from my older 4TB Seagate Barracuda (drive E / NTFS) to the Ironwolf (NTFS). Both are connected to a docking station (Orico Docking Station) which is then connected to my PC (Win10 64 / MSI X570 Tomahawk / Ryzen 5 5600X). Everything went smoothly until I did the following: formatted the 4TB Barracuda and removed its drive letter (E) changed the drive letter of the new Ironwolf to E After doing those two things, the Ironwolf suddenly showed up as RAW and using CHKDSK wouldn't bring the partition back for some reason. I used DMDE to recover the files from the Ironwolf to another spare 4TB Barracuda (drive F / exFAT). Ever since that time, every time I try to put files back into the Ironwolf, certain files would show up as corrupted and would make the HDD inaccessible again and I'd have to restart the whole recovery process. Meanwhile, my drive F would also become inaccessible but a simple CHKDSK /f would solve the issue. Two days ago, I once again formatted my Ironwolf HDD (drive E) but decided not to put any of the recovered files (mostly video files) in it and simply chose to re-download on the internet. My thought process was maybe the recovered files were causing the issues and would result in the HDD becoming corrupted. Downloading the new files off the internet and into the Ironwolf was going very well and I checked to see that each file was opening and playing properly until 2 hrs ago when 3 newly downloaded videos didn't open on mpv and didn't generate a thumbnail (like this) for "healthy" files that would open and play normally. I decided to restart my PC just to see if the problem would go away and lo and behold, the Ironwolf (drive E) was again inaccessible along with my other Barracuda (drive F). However, doing CHKDSK /f allowed me to access both (!! progress) once again, but the Ironwolf (drive E) has "deleted" my files -- files are clearly still there since there's used space shown on My Computer, but I can't see them thru Windows. The attached files shows the results of CHKDSK /f for my Ironwolf (drive E) and what CrystalDiskInfo says about its health. Is there anything wrong with my Ironwolf? What else is there for me to do to try and get this working properly without fear of suddenly losing data on it? Are there conflicts being carried-over by my use of drive letter E somehow? Do I need to format the Ironwolf a certain way? Is the Ironwolf not suited for non-NAS setups? I'm really stumped for a solution outside of buying a new HDD, which I'm not keen on since the Ironwolf wasn't cheap. PS. Here's my post on Reddit that went unnoticed detailing my trouble from days ago before I decided to post here. It's worded differently since I was trying other things out, but the gist is the same. PPS. IMGUR album of errors I've screenshotted aside from my post here

Hello everyone! I have a couple of old HDDS in my system (2012, and 2011), I was wondering how long would I expect these drives to last? They both are quite old, but are well kept (They're in a clean case with a intake fan pointed directly at them). One of these is a WD black 500GB, and the other a Seagate Barracuda 128GB. I have been anticipating them to die and have brought a SSD for my boot device. Considering the HDD's age and how they're kept, how much longer should I expect them to last? Many thanks for all responses.

Hey, I just picked up a Dell PowerEdge 860 for fun, just something to mess around with. I went to install Linux onto it but the problem is, even though there are working drives installed in it, the system doesn't register any drives and therefore I can only run Linux off a usb for the time being. Yes the drives are plugged in. (Reposted from servers and Nas to see if anyone here might be able to help)