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Hey guys, I try to troubleshoot my friend computer and I'm facing an issue that I never saw and don't know what to do. The problem is that the computer doesn't detect any devices that are like "Mass storage devices", like gaming programmable mouse, gaming keyboard, usb stick, usb drive. BUT it detects "basic" desktop mouse and keyboard. For example, his Logitech G502 lights up when the BIOS POST, but power off when windows starts. (but don't work in UEFI). A super basic HP mouse works well on the UEFI and on Windows. Same with his Cerberus keyboard, works time to time in UEFI, and partially on Windows (ctrl, shift, alt and caps lock keys stays stuck pressed, until I disconnect the keyboard and plug a basic keyboard) Second example, when I plug my USB key with Windows 11 setup, it's sometimes detected by the BIOS, but it's not on the Boot Menu list. It's only in the list when I enable CSM support with Legacy setting, but still not shows up in Windows explorer or Disk Manager. In the Device Manager, i get a warning sign for "USB Mass storage device" with error code 10 and "Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)" with error code 43 I tried all these things, without success : - Completely format and reinstall Windows 11 - Downgrade to Windows 10 - Install all Windows update - Install all drivers update from the Gigabyte Control Center + Driverscloud - Install latest BIOS firmware - Install a bunch of different USB and USB 3.0 drivers (From Gigabyte and Intel) - Uninstalled devices from Device Manager - Rebooted so many time between and after drivers install and device uninstall - Disabled Fast Boot in the BIOS - Disabled Secure boot in the BIOS - Enabled / disabled CSM support (UEFI and Legacy) But still the same problem. Maybe the motherboard is faulty ? Do you have any clue for that strange problem ? Config : Gigabyte B660 Gaming X DDR4 (BIOS was version F5, I tried with F23 and the most recent F24, same problem) I5 12600KF GTX 1060 G.Skill Ripjaws V (2x 16 Go, 3200Mhz, DDR4) M.2 Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1To ASUS PCE-AX3000 Wifi card (Images in french, sorry !)

Country: United States Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Nothing really, just storing stuff and launching games for now (if that's even possible) I didn't know where else to put this other than planning so apologies. I'm planning on using a pc my friend is giving me as my first NAS or just a storage machine that I can use from my main gaming pc but I don't really know where to start besides some googling. The focus is to be able to store files on it and have my games launch from it (if that's even possible). This is basically going to be baby's first NAS I guess. I plan to have 8 tbs of storage to start (two 4tb seagate drives as of right now). The pc he's giving me is more than capable and has a 1060 3gb that I suppose I wont need. But as of right now, I don't know how I would set it up or how communication with it would work. I've looked up some guides and particularly LTT's own "Your Old PC is Your New Server" video and while I think I can follow that video I've been hearing a lot about TrueNAS as well as other operating systems/programs for setting up a NAS. I was wondering what all the benefits and drawbacks of these different systems are so any insight is greatly appreciated.

I am looking for a hard drive that I can use to create a backup for about 5TB of data, plus I would like to have room to grow in the future. Does anybody have any suggestions for a HD that would be good for my backup needs? Also I would be using the HDD to backup the data and to retrieve the data if needed onto other HDDs. I would not use it to install and play games or anything like that. Thanks for all the help!

What is a Disk Enclosure? A Disk Enclosure is a case (most commonly rack mountable) that contains nothing but bare drives, a means to power the drives, and a controller for the drives to use to communicate with a parent system. Why Would Somebody Want to Build One? Less expensive than off the shelf units (often cheaper than the used market) Quieter (being able to choose your own fans) Fully customizable (standard form factor) Easier to repair (standard form factor) The Build Process (an example using Mini-SAS) Starting with the enclosure virtually any box or container could be used to build a Disk Enclosure but a chassis designed to hold a lot of drives, a chassis with many 5.25" drive bays (for 2.5"/3.5" drive caddies), or a rack-mount chassis would be ideal. The Power Source Depending on the enclosure different form factors of PSUs are available including ATX, SFX, FlexATX, and server variations (1U, 2U, 4U)/Mini-Redundant/etc are all options. It's important to understand that larger quantities of disks are going to require a larger PSU. Not for the reason of standard operation power draw but because of initial spin-up power draw. Staggered Spin-up is a feature designed to mitigate this issue but your controller and/or SAS Expander may not support it. Depending on your choice of disks datasheets can be found online to tell you how much current (Amps) are required to get the drive spinning. By multiplying this by the number of disks you have (make sure to pay attention to both the +5V & +12V rails) it will give you an idea as to how strong of a PSU you'll need. Make sure to give yourself some overhead for future expansion. The SAS Expander (the controller) There are a variety of SAS Expanders on the market but this guide will only go over one. If you have reason to use another be it better quality, cheaper, or you already have it you may be able to adapt it to work with this guide. One that will provide modularity and give you 24 ports for HDDs is the HP 468405-002. It can be found on sites like Amazon & eBay for cheap. It comes with a SFF-8088 port (which will connect to your parent server) and eight SFF-8087 ports (6 of which will go to your drives/caddies/or backplanes, two of which can go to your HBA/Controller but we won't be using them). Powering the SAS Expander can be done in one of two ways, which you choose may be determined by what you have available to you or how you've setup your box. The x8 slot on the SAS Expander isn't needed when the rear SFF-8088 port goes to your Controller. Because of this you can setup a low-end spare motherboard with CPU and RAM. This will just give it power. Then you could connect the front I/O cables to the motherboard for controlling power/reset. An alternative option would be to use one of the powered PCI_e risers made for GPU Crypto Mining. Some people have reported this hasn't worked for them but instances of this haven't been checked that it wasn't user error. Never-the-less, this method may or may not work for you but it would be a lot cleaner and when building your own box, easier than mounting a full motherboard. Powering the Disk Enclosure on/off could be handled by shorting pins 15+16 (Green wire to a Black wire) on the 20+4 pin cable from the PSU then operating power by using the switch on the back of the PSU. Additional Components SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 cable This cable will run externally to the Disk Enclosure and will connect to your server. HBA/RAID Controller (with external ports) An HBA or RAID controller with external ports (such as the LSI 9207-8e) will be needed in your server for the Disk Enclosure to interface with it. Optional Components SFF-8087 Cable This will be needed for connecting the SAS Expander to your backplane if you're using one. SFF-8088 to SFF-8087 adapter In the event you have an HBA/RAID controller with internal ports this paired with SFF-8087 cables will allow you to use it in substitution of a controller with SFF-8088 ports. SFF-8087 to SATA Forward Breakout cable If you are connecting the SAS expander to drive caddies or directly to the drives these will be needed. Assembly Connecting everything together is quite strait forward. Install the HBA/RAID controller in your server. Connect SFF-8088 cable to the back (or though SFF-8087 to SFF-8088 adapter) Assemble the Disk Enclosure Install your drives Connect SFF-8087 cables to backplane or breakout cables directly to the drives/caddy) Install PSU Install unpopulated motherboard or powered PCI_e riser Install SAS Expander, connect SFF-8087 cables. Connect other end of SFF-8088 cable to Drive Enclosure Connect power Testing Once assembled a Disk Enclosure is very plug'n'play. Be sure to power up the Disk Enclosure before the server. Your HBA or RAID controller will see the disks connected though the SAS Exapnder and will appear within the OS for whatever you need them to do. Conclusion Building a Disk Enclosure yourself is a very cheap fully customizable option to expanding storage on your desktop or server. How far you want to go with it is entirely up to you.

I know this topic is a bit old to discuss but I wanted to know if there is anyway to access my phone storage as a seperate drive letter like all my other drives partitions in my PC. Now I've been reading blogs about Android telling that the versions after 4.0 did not have the USB Mass Storage option when connecting to the windows PC. So far many are telling it's absolutely not possible because android made sure of that even with USB debugging enabled. I don't even know what to call the *device* that's been connected to the PC as shown in the image - Galaxy J7 Max Is there any possible solution to access that device as a seperate drive like others (with letters, properties, partitions, NTFS/FAT32 etc)?

Help me choose which of these drives is the best for gaming! The Black is 20$ more expensive than Gold and Barracuda Pro. Is it really worth the extra money or should I go with Gold or Barracuda Pro?

Heyo everybody! So with my new computer on arrival, I have been wondering how I can set it up so my SSD will load windows but all my downloads and files will go on my hard drive for mass storage. I am installing windows off a USB onto the computer off a first-time startup.

Hello guys, I have a pretty simple question. What are the pros and cons of doing a partition on a drive vs having two drives. I want a 1 tb partition for a time machine backup and the rest as mass storage. I want to run the WD My Book Duo in a raid 1 for redundancy.

so.. with my old server really starting to fall apart, and a lot of free time coming up i've decided to fix my damn floor, and seeing i have to tear down everything in my room anyways i've decided it's the perfect moment to finally put my old server to rest as well. ------------- The location is offcourse belgium, and by preference i'd order my parts from alternate.be because they're semi-local, i have good experiences with their custommer support, and their prices are acceptable for me. comes to the budget, most of the gear has been decided, with a total budget of roughly €1500, and about €700-ish left for the components as of yet undecided, which mostly means the hard drives and some miscelaneous bits. the aim of this device... is complex. it'll be my NAS, HTPC, home server for varying workloads, it'll be running a few desktop applications, and will be running a few VMs as well. i just want to stress this: there will be no overclocking, end of discution on this idea. i want this device to last as long as some of my older servers did before passing away in fire. since HTPC is on this list, it'll involve monitors, a HDMI port is a must, probably a second device over HDMI/DVI will be a thing, for more/different things, chances are the box will be getting a low power GPU in the future. basicly i want the mobo to be able to push two displays over HDMI, if there's more there'll be upgrades. peripherals arent necessary, the peripheral situation is (aside from monthly baking my logitech performance MX) the only thing about my current box that's happy. since it'll be running linux (several reasons for this) that doesnt need to be accounted for in the price either and to keep to the standard layout, i'll add a reason why i'm upgrading, just because it's funny: the current box i'm doing all of this with is an acer prebuilt that has extra sata power cables soldered into the motherboard, and basicly every moving part in there is broken or breaking. ------------- brings us to the build, and the advice i need. - i7 6700 (i chose this specific chip because high single core performance, combined with 4c/ht) - MSI H170A PC MATE, or MSI B150 PC MATE, depending on if i'll need mobo raid or not for my storage (the B150 doesnt list raid..) - a singular corsair 16GB DDR4 memory stick, because i liked their DDR3 ram, and i honestly just want to know what they did with their DDR4. (16GB stick because i dont want to toss sticks, and plan to go all the way to 64GB over time) - noctua NH-D9L once again mostly for curiousity, and for silence since this box will be in a place it can be heard. - i've more or less decided on a mushkin triactor 240GB SSD as a boot drive, and a second one for applications in the future. (i've got the upgrade process into a second SSD figured out, no worries on that field) - seasonic PRIME 650W titanium power supply, for a few reasons: efficiency (less power usage & heat, to me it matters, end of discution), i wanna try out a seasonic psu, and because (social experiemnt, if you read this, mention "spinning rust" in your reply) it has some specific features i want to have related to power loss. comes to what i need: i have NO idea what to do for storage, but i have a few requirements: - redundant storage, surprise me in what way, but it needs to be redundant - at all cases, i want a singular drive to contain ALL data, either as part of a raid1 or similar, or as a semi-cold nightly backup. (backup scripts can be arranged, no worries there) - it needs to be as quiet as possible, i understand hard drives cannot be 100% silent, but i would prefer it to not be a vibrating mess. - i need some terms of performance, currently a single 7200RPM drive suffices, but i'm looking towards going up in performance preferably - comes to the final reason of upgrading: i have a 1.2TB backup drive, that thing is full, i'm looking at 2-4TB worth of storage. - the hard drives, eventual raid or HBA cards, and/or brackets, and the case (if no better options arise, probably a define R5) need to fit in my €700 left in the budget (lower is offcourse better, i'm a cheapskate ) case recommendations are offcourse welcome, i'll quickly outline the requirements: - quietness is a factor, it lives on an antivibration pad in a corner surrounded by dense wood desk, but shoddy drive bays that rattle are probably a no. - i do not need a fancy, i need a function - i *hate* rackmount cases... they're unwieldly, loud, impractical, and dont fit in the little corner (should add, it's roughly 1 meter by 1 meter by 1 meter, and it'll share it's "room" with two UPSes) - i want a case to "grow" into, more drive bays are better, i'd prefer to have at least two external 5.25" bays as well. it'll probably end up being built in between 2 to 4 weeks from now, depending how the rest of the construction works go.

Hey guys, Would love to see what you guys think of this blogpost from 45 Drives. Feel free to give your thoughts! http://45drives.blogspot.ca/2016/09/everything-you-need-to-know-about-hard.html

Hey guys, I would like to upgrade my personal storage solution. I currently have two 1TB WD blues for my mass storage and I sync them up once a week with freefilesync (http://www.freefilesync.org/). Awesome mass storage solution I know xD. Now I want to increase both the capacity and the reliablity. I had this in mind: 3TB fast and silent main HDD 3TB slow but very reliable HDD for weekly backup 3TB slow but very reliable HDD in another Desktop on the same network for monthly backup 3TB HDD that i just keep off site for yearly backup Whyat do you think of that system? Can you please make suggestions for the drives? I wanted to go with WD but found articles that say they have freaking huge failure rates... then I wanted to go with HGST but I have read that their drives tend to be loud... What is the easiest way to automatically sync files over the network with another pc? Thank you for your answers in advance (=

Dear all, Lately i've been noticing that my second hard drive keeps spinning, while my external hard drive gets switched off as requested in my power management. I thought it were my fans i was hearing but after opening up my case it was the spinning drive. Now that i've noticed it, my paranoia has activated... I've been monitoring the recourse manager and it's not reading or writing anything to the drive for hours and it doesn't want to stop spinning ... while my external drive (connected to USB) does. Anyone who has any idea's or had the same issue ? cheers

Currently i use a 1TB WD Green HDD for mass storage along with a SSD as a boot drive. Most probably i would like to increase the mass storage capacity to 2TB or may be 4TB. So in that case, will a 7200rpm HDD suit better or a SSHD(Hybrid Drive)? In my current HDD i store almost everything from movies,music,pictures to huge photoshop,Autocad,Sketchup files. Note i have installed every application to the SSD. So for things like huge photoshop, Autocad, Sketchup files, will a SSHD perform better than a traditional HHD spinning at 7200rpm?

PLEASE NOTE: THIS TOPIC IS NOW SOLVED. THANK YOU. I am currently thinking of upgrading my current rig. I noticed that there was a 3.5" 3TB WD Blue "@" 5400RPM The HDD I currently have is a 3.5" 1TB WD Blue"@" 7200RPM. Any advice would be appriciated.

What would the best option be for one goal, simply the most amount of storage possible. Currently, Im looking at 3, 3TB WD blues for $99 a piece. Thats $300 for 9TB of storage. I dont really know much about other HDDs other than WD. The data on these drives although I dont want to lose, is non-critical so Im not looking for the "best of the best" it terms of data protection. What other drives could I get (any size) that combined could give me for storage for less or the same money?

Hello guys (and girls), My sister has a problem with her phone (sony experia Z), her screen cracked and with as a result that the touch does not work anymore. She asked me to recover her photos and videos which are stored on the Internal memory. When I plug the phone into my PC, it connects through mtp and does not show anything. Is there anyway to switch the connecting mode from mtp to Mass storage from my pc? The one who finds the answer will get a digital biscuit

I'm planning on building a File Server/NAS for myself and some friends and my family to use to keep all of our random files that we don't won't taking up space on our personal systems or files that we would like to share. I've never really thought about what would need to go in so I did a little research on and watched some video on what I might would need in the build but I'm still unsure if I'm even choosing the right parts. I'm also unsure if it will need a video card, if it does that shouldn't be a problem since I'm planning to upgrade my personal system video card as well so I can just use the one that's in my current one (GTX 760). There is a chance I might end up hosting a minecraft server or some other random server for games off of it as well so I don't really know if 16GB will be enough (I know it is for minecraft) for some games that I would want to host a server for. Can anyone help me makes this build better? Possibly cheaper? I do really want the 16TB of storage considering lots of movies and videos will be kept on this system. PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor ($232.99 @ SuperBiiz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-C14S 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler ($79.65 @ Amazon) Motherboard: ASRock E3C224-V+ ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($157.99 @ SuperBiiz) Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) Registered DDR3-1600 Memory ($157.99 @ Adorama) Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($148.98 @ OutletPC) Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($148.98 @ OutletPC) Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($148.98 @ OutletPC) Storage: Western Digital Red 4TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive ($148.98 @ OutletPC) Case: Fractal Design Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case ($85.99 @ NCIX US) Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Platinum Certified Fully-Modular Fanless ATX Power Supply ($120.99 @ SuperBiiz) Total: $1431.52 Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-12-31 02:49 EST-0500 Also, I noticed I didn't include a SSD so I will be adding a 256GB Samsung 850 EVO to for a boot drive. Can someone recommend a OS though? Is there a specific type of Windows I should get for this system or could I just stick with Win10 Pro? Thank you for any help, don't really know much about building a a system like this so I appreciate every bit of help I receive on this post.

I am looking to have something like a place to store a bunch of photos, videos, etc. I want it like a school would have it, anyone connected to the wifi or connected to it could access anything save, or delete. Im looking to have about 10-15TB storage to start off. I want to be able to have more. Any ideas or a video you could link me to (preferably from Linus or someone who knows what they are doing) that would be great!

Hello, I would like to seek some tips on assembling a mass data storage solution and a suitable RAID setup. Background: My office uses Windows desktops as our primary machines for normal office use, however we also have 5 Apple desktop machines for media editing. Totaling around 30 machines. Currently we are using some USB RAID storage and swapping drives with media files for our work. We are looking to build a shared data storage solution, approximately around 50-100TB, with fast access via either copper or optical LAN. The main machines that will be accessing the storage will be the 5 Apple machines using Final Cut or Adobe products, and perhaps at most 10 of the various windows machines connected at any one time if they are even given access. The primary purpose of the storage array will be for the video editors to have access to the media files, edit directly on the storage array and collaborate. Our main requirements are of course, Speed Reliability Some sort of data safety (I am considering RAID 6 for the storage array, our office has a contract with an external company for offsite backup of all our data) So what components would be recommanded, and in what sizes (HDDs, SSDS, memory)? (Written on my phone, so if I forgot to mention something or need to clarify anything, I will edit later.) EDIT: Examples of hardware I am considering. I wont mention specific model numbers if I am not sure if of their availability. Motherboard: Asus Px79-E WS Processor: Xeon E5 2620 v2 Memory: As much as the motherboard and cpu can support, not certain if I want to go ECC or non-ECC GPU: whatever is the bare minimum necessary to connect a display. Recommendation for a hardware RAID controller? Power supply: 600w PSU? Storage bay: ? HDD: HGST NAS drives, 2, 3 or 4TB capacity. SSD: 1x 120GB Samsung Evo

Hello! I receantly decided to buy a SSD, since SSD cost so much, I bought a Samsung 840 EVO 250 GB for the Operating System and other software's. So, every gamer knows that 250 GB is NOT enough for games. So my question I have these Hard Drives - 1. A single ST1000DM003 basically 1000GB 64 MB 7200 RPM Sata 3 2. Three HITACHI HTS723216L9SA60, basically 160GB 16 MB cache 7200 RPM Drive Sata 1 I dont need bigger then 500 GB for games.... So running those 3 HDD in RAID 0 would be faster then option2. But each HDD in option 2 is $90(total of $270) and option 1 only 49.99 So which is better? Should I run crystal disk?

I really need some good help with my Raid 1, 2TB SSHD Mass storage. PLEASE. well the problem is that for some reason my raid 1 array has went into being write protected, while i can still play my games at the moment (tested with Team Fortress 2), i cannot access any of my music or download anything onto this array. Is there anyway i can fix this? Please someone help.