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Hello guys, recently, i have noticed that my 16 TB HDDs (which I cant backup at the moment), make this really strange noise, always when booting up the PC, and sometimes, randomly while its on. When it happens while its on, the file explorer suddenly stops working for a few seconds, doesn't respond, and then, the sound stops, and it starts working again with no problem. This happened with just one HDD a while ago, and then, after I had to change the PSU for another unrelationed problem, the other one started beeping, as well. The only thing that they both have in common, (aside from the brand and storage, two Seagates IronWolfs Pro), its that I noticed that the SATA data cables, dont get completely plugged in the HDDs, both of them are a little loose, even when they have those metal plugs that should make them get stuck when plugged correctly (they are pretty stuck in the MOBO), but not in the HDDs. Maybe that could be a problem of the space of my case, which is a bit small, but the SATA power and data cables arent really the most flexible, and the usual slot which are in cases for the storage isnt always the most comfortable for the cable management, but i would like to know if someone knows what could be causing this noise and the stuttering. I took some videos to catch exactly the type of sounds they produce, and i will share the links to YT, to provide a better understanding. I already did some basic tests with Crystaldisk, which told me that the HDDs were in good shape (they have a little over one year of use). Also, I must clarify that I'm using the Y-splitter in the SATA power cable for the connection to the PSU for both HDDs. PD: Sorry if the question isn't that well redacted, but my english isn't pretty good. PD2: I already created this same thread in Tom's Hardware, and while they gave me good advice, the guy who answered also couldn't diagnose the exact cause of the sound, and while I think it could be an issue of the connection, I don't know any way of truly verifying it. HDD sounds while booting:

so a colleague of mine was gonna upgrade his pc with one of our old PCs and he decided to put his sata ssd into the pc that had windows 11 operating system, when he logged into the pc he found that a good chunck of the data like documents and pictures were gone and where categorized under an unknown non-existing drive so he gave me the work to fix this however i can't figure out whats happend. what i have done is searching file names through the library without any luck and i used windirstat to locate the missing files becuase most of the ssd space is used up however the used up space is no where to be found. and windirstat cannot locate it 100%, it can only find that it's with in his user. but there is nothing there. maybe some files got corrupt because what i noticed is that the old PCs were windows 10 and he plugged in a windows 11 ssd. i just need some ideas here on what to do the old pc gtx 1660 16 gb ddr3 motherboard is a 970 pro3 r2.0 amd fx(tm)-8350 sata ssd 120gb with windows 11 sata ssd 850gb for games the new pc gtx 970 16gb ddr3 asus maximus vii ranger intel i5-4690k sata ssd 250gb with windows 10

Hey guys! This is my first time on the forum so forgive me if I put this in the wrong place. Basically I am a photographer videographer and I used to just do file management on my one custom built pc that had a 1tb nvme ssd and a 4tb hdd to the back for archival storage, however 2 things happened over the past 3 ish years. 1, I have since purchased a second computer, a laptop, a macbook, an ipad, and inherited an old prebuilt dell from a relative. )The macbook and 2nd computer have been added more recently, so I havent needed a purpose to purchase a new nas to run my storage off of, as the one computer sufficed and then any projects I would upload to my google drive. As time has gone on, Ive thought about taking the sleeping machine back on another few trips around the sun while in high school to manage my files. I currently opperate a wix webpage for my photography, but I would like to be able to use the feature of connecting over the internet to the wix webpage. (I have a little bit of experience with java so I can figure out some way for the data to access an application on the computer eventually) but in the meantime it would be nice to just have the portable access to where if Im on my home network I can port into that computer and have it upload and download files as needed, so after a big photography trip I can upload all my photos from my mac while upstairs and then sort through them at a later date. Looking into it, I found a few different options for me. I could purchase a new 4-drive g-technology for myself and connect that to my computer, or I can (for much cheaper) purchase a drive bay with some p-cie - sata adapters and connect the bay to the board that way. It wouldnt be able to run raid, but honestly other than the main hard drive that the computer boots off of its all going to be archival storage with not much going on there. Either way, I would like to just have this setup in my basement off my desk constantly running to where all I would need to have is a monitor so I can watch as my files are preserved for however long the ssd's last. Either way. Im looking for sudgestions on how you would run this system. Is there an application that could be cheap or free that either boots on linux or windows that I can then turn into my controller for the drives, or is there some service (Like google drive) that I can pay a few bucks a year for the software to local host my data. I can follow up with photos once I am at my house after school today (Gotta love the college experience) Any help is greatly appreciated. I would like to quickly mention that yes, I have watched linus's videos on turning your old pc into a server, but most of them are from a few years back and the companies that (potentially) were free back then have started charging an arm and a leg for their software, that is subscription based. Amazon links to what I would purchase if I were to build my own enclosure: Rack Drive Bays Sata Port Potential 1 Sata Port Potential 2 Sata Port Potential 3

so i had this question for a long time, why isnt sata3 6gb/sec is never utilized anywhere and why do we even need 6gb/sec sata then? even pcie 3.0 m2 nvme can reach up to 3600mb/s which is 3.6g/sec but still way faster than any sata drive to exist

I want to enable IDE Mode on my PCIe SATA Card. Chipsets: ASM1061. and the description says Supports IDE / AHCI programming interface, how to change the mode? please help.

I'm looking for a good-value 1 or 2TB SATA SSD in Norway. I will use it as a secondary drive for storing games and perhaps some documents. Here are some of the options I've been considering: SAMSUNG 870 EVO 1 TB: 900 NOK (86 USD) Crucial MX500 2.5" 7mm 1TB: 950 NOK (92 USD) Kioxia Exceria LTC10Z960GG8 960GB: 650 NOK (62 USD) Anything else? Thanks in advance!

Hey Guys, Thank you for reading - I need some help in identifying the best way to connect a older 6GB HDD. Context: This is a HDD from an old iRiver recorder that has stopped turning on. I've taken the HDD out and looking to connect to windows, and fingers crossed, it pops up like a removable HDD. It currently uses a flat flex ribbon cable, ATA-33 connector, however I'm struggling to find an adapter that would allow me to plug this into either a USB port, SATA, or even simply copy the data to flash storage. I've found something similar (Converter) for Toshiba drives, but am struggling for this drive. I've contacted seagate's tech support who suggested I many need to daisy chain adapters, but did not give any further details on the type of adapters required. I've added some pictures, any advice or guidance here? Model: ST650211FX Connector: ATA-33 More information: https://testhdd.com/Seagate-ST1-Series-ST650211FX-hard-drive-5-GB-ATA-33-17.html

I was wondering if a SATA connector connected to the motherboard this way, maybe we can replace it with a M.2 SATA or M.2 NVMe. If that's not possible and NVMe should be connected directly to the motherboard, is that possible to move my WiFi Card over here (on the place of ODD SATA port)? so that I can connect an NVMe ssd there. Also Speccy says I have 3 PCIe x1 ports available. What are those and how I can utilize them?

I want to replace the 2.5" HDD in my laptop with an M.2 NVMe SSD. I'm looking for a solution/product that would make plugging my SSD into a SATA 3.3 connector possible. I can't seem to find a suitable adapter. I found adapters that turn M.2 SATA into regular SATA. Also, I don't want to use it as external storage. Is this conversion even possible to do? If so, could you please help me?

Christmas is comming baby, and with that my SATA cables for more storage could I do what I said on the title without damaging my HDD.

So I recently bought a PSU that didn't have a SATA cable and as the CoolerMaster doesn't make this specific PSU anymore I wasn't able to get one from them so I bought one somewhere else which states to work with my PSU. Now I've got it I want to properly test if the cable will work with my PSU before I turn everything on as I don't want to fry my new PC. Any help/tips?

Hi y'all... Sooo I got a new PC about 2 weeks ago, I picked parts like RTX 4060Ti (mainly cuz everyone was saying how bad the card is just to prove them all wrong which I did after I decimated 3060 and 3070 performance in Cyberpunk 2077 with RT Overdrive, Path Tracing and DLSS 3.5), i5 13400F, 32GB DDR4 3200MHz RAM and LG UltraGear 144 QHD monitor with HDR... Anyways my motherboard is Gigabyte H610M H which was enough but I have forgot to check on how many m.2 and PCIe slots it has... Soo it has one 16x PCIe slot for my GPU, one 1x PCIe slot unoccupied and one m.2 slot with my Samsung 980 PRO... The problem is that I have 3 m.2 drives just lying around unused with all my games on them and I am tired of connecting them via USB C every single time I want to play a game that is on that SSD, all SSD's are m.2 NVMe and I have 3 SATA slots unoccupied so I purchased a board that was supposed to connect that m.2 NVMe trough SATA but it doesnt work... So I went on google to check and I found out accordingly to the m.2 socket number that this particular socket is for NGFF drive but the seller on amazon said m.2 NVMe (NGFF) to SATA III adapter and there was no mention that it should not support NVMe, after a bit of digging I have found out the key difference between ancient NGFF and modern NVMe and now I have 3 junk m.2 to sata boards, 3 NVMe SSD's lying around and no way to connect them except using USB C which like I said, its annoying and few months ago one of my drive thanks to this got corrupted and I had to completely wipe it becasue having steam games there and disconnecting it (not while its updating or game running) is bad and breaks everything. I am kinda worried that there is no solution for me to convert m.2 NVMe to SATA the way I thought and I for sure dont want to spend 50 or 60 bucks on one board that might or might not work... The question is, what are my options now. I have 3 SATA slots free and PCIe 1x slot free... About the PCIe slot... I kinda wanted to use that slot for USB C expansion card to have more USB slots because the motherboard has 6 plus 3 on top of my case (yes I know its alot but having more fast USB slots is always better than having 3 USB 3.0 and 6 USB 2.0). So the another question is what if I buy a PCIe 1x to PCIe 16x riser (I looked it up and I found some online) and then I buy PCIe card with 3 or 4 m.2 slots on it, connect all my drives (all 3 drives separately, not all together in raid config or whatever to show up as one big 4.5TB drive). This idea could theoretically work I think... Sharing bandwidth YES but the fact that I will always use one of the drives at a time, they wont have OS installed on them and will purely serve as a drive for games that do not need high SSD speeds (for that I have the 980 PRO with windows on it which is 2TB and then 870 QVO for some large games that I would like to have loaded up faster like Fallout 4 with 500 mods). Is there any way for me to do it right to have all SSD's where I want them to be or is the only way to use USB C adapter with possibility to corrupt all my data again and lose it all?

So ,i have been thinking about increasing the storge capacity on my ASUS vivobook k15 oled (x513) which i bought to save money and upgrade it down the line(like rn) It currently has 236 gb of usable storage which ofc is not enough. I have two ways to solve this problem. 1. Use the given space inside for a sata ssd (the mount was included in the package). 2. Buy and replace a m.2 ssd and go through the process of reinstalling every software i have on including windows and some actually usefull oem features by asus.the only pro being speed what would you do if you were in my place?also recoment some good ssd relative to your answer

My PSU, which is an MWE 650 Gold Fully Modular by CoolerMaster, doesn't have a sata cable to plug into the PSU and then my NZXT fan hub so I am unable to get my fans to work and I can't for the life of me find the correct cable for it anywhere! Is there anyway around it or where can I get one that would work with my PSU?

My power supply just died on me so I went and bought a new one, but the SATA power cables are different and won't connect to my SSD, or any of my drives. Do I just need to push harder? Old power supply is Thermaltake Smart 500W, new one is Thermaltake Smart 700W. VID_20230918_180919323.mp4

This is genuinely confusing to me. I’ve been troubleshooting this for a couple days now, and it’s the strangest behavior I’ve ever witnessed on a piece of hardware ever. My motherboard won’t list any SATA devices, and yet Windows will; and whenever I plug in an NVMe device, BIOS stalls for several minutes before moving onto the operating system (when it still cooperated in that aspect). I’ve tried flashing BIOS, clearing CMOS, excluding parts and everything else in between. I feel there’s gotta be a solution to this or at least an explanation as to why such bizarre behavior is occurring. 71634481639__A5002219-3263-4004-9626-4EB5BED49368.MOV

Hello, I recently upgraded my Lenovo Y50-70 Laptop's old HDD to an SSD. The Old HDD I'm using as an external hard drive and using a SATA power+Data cable combo (USB 2.0). It looks exactly like the one in the image. I have also attached a picture of my HDD. The Issue I'm having is that when I connect this to a Windows 11 PC it makes a constant, lightly auditable clicking noise. This only happens on the Windows PC, as I've successfully connected the drive using the same cable to a Mac desktop and the Lenovo laptop which it came from, which now has an SSD and a fresh install of Windows 10 as well as another laptop running Windows 10. All 3 devices and read/write and format this drive but the PC cannot even read it. Furthermore, I've used the same cable to connect another 2.5 HDD that came from a Seagate external hard and it can read/write fine on the PC. Does anyone know what the issue might be?

I have laptop which turns 10 next month. I want to change its HDD 500 Gb to SSD . I asked on Sony Support , but they said " its not recommended to do changes with storage as the company has shut down its operations in India " . He didn't bother to explain the technical reason. Is there really something that I shouldn't change it? Also the HDD has aged 10 years. I checked the disk and I've attached the results from this software. Should I use SSD? Edited: Does anyone know what writing/reading speed would I get in this laptop if I use 550MBPS SSD.

Welli have a bunch of good old spinning hdds and because i want to replace them with faster storage i looked for some options. at my region normal ssd 2tb and nvme 2tb almost cost the same. but because all if my slots are used (even sata - i am already using a pci 4x to 4 sata adapter i just want to know if there are any good and cheap sata to nvme adapter to buy in (austria/germany) online? i know using a nvme as sata is wasting speed but i only want to know if there are good options. thx in advance

I just change my motherboard from gigabyte to asus b150m pro gaming. My previous motherboard didn't had sata 3 however this one only have sata 3, yet my write speed went half. I have a Seagate baracuda black 240 gb ssdSsd in sata 3ssd in sata 2

Just got sober and I turn on my monitor and found this abomination project, let met know if anyone maybe find this funny/unnecessary or even better, interested to make this ridiculous concept into reality! It's basically work like NVMe-Based AIC card like highpoint one right here. It's interfaced to host system via PCIe x4/8 lane straight trough ASMedia ASM2824 PCIe switch and distribute each x1 lane to ASM1164 SATA HBA, each HBA handle 4x M.2 2242 Adapter. The card occupy single PCIe expansion slot with stacked card configuration, with IO connection to the daughterboard handled via PCIe x4 female to female adapter With some napkin math, I figure out (roughly) about the AIC stats: Maximum capacity for single M.2 2242 SATA drive available on the market right now is 2TB, costing around $65 each (Retail pricing), so if I want to maximize the capacity + fully populated the card, the math will be: Total RAW capacity: 28x2TB= 56TB Total price: 28x$65: $1.820 Max theoretical performance, assuming each drive already saturating SATA3 bandwidth with ±10% margin, and each Controller node already saturating allocated PCIe 3.0 x1 bandwidth by the PCIe switch: 7GB/s (PCIe 3.0 x8 Link)

I recently installed an Ml240l RGB v2 into my pc. I noticed my motherboard only has 3-pin RGB headers, and the fans require a 4-pin RGB header; the only other way to connect the RGB is through Molex which my PSU does not have. Is it safe to use one of these cables to turn a SATA cable into a Molex connecter because I heard from some people they are a fire hazard? https://www.amazon.ca/StarTech-com-LP4SATAFM12-12-Inch-Molex-Adapter/dp/B00GK8SYCW/ref=sr_1_14?crid=383Z72EZZHG8B&keywords=sata+to+molex&qid=1687551745&sprefix=saata+to+molex%2Caps%2C125&sr=8-14 (this is the cable I'm looking at btw)

I can get one of the two for the same price? Which one should i get? My current setup has a 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm drive. No SSD. I want the SSD to be very reliable and long-lasting at the same time being substantially faster when booting up, opening apps and games. So Which one? Thanks

Im setting up a server with a non-modular power supply. It has a 6+2 GPU cable which I'd like to use to power sata Google search hasn't provided much, anyone have any idea what this adaptor might be called? I have 3 options 6pin to 5pin (5x1) or 6pin (2x3) or sata 15pin So the adptor needs to be female 6pin to female 5pin / 6 pin / 15 pin sata