Losing an HDD!!

ICY90 · December 28, 2016

I hope some of you can help me with this.

I think that I lose power to one of my drives from time to time, I dont get any error message it just stops showing up in windows. It occurs specially when I play Tom Clancy's The Division. but a hard restart of the system puts it right in again.

My specs is:

CPU = Fx 8320 8 core
Motherboard = ASUS 970 PRO GAMING/AURA with BIOS version 0801
GPU = MSI R9 380 4GB
PSU = MS-Tech 950W
Main drive = Kingston SSD 120GB
Second drive = Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD <- the drive Im losing
Third drive = WD Caviar Blue 1TB HDD
RAM = 2X Kingston HyperX 4GB
CPU Cooler = Arctic Cooling Freezer

I hope some one can tell me what the problem is, I know it cant be the drive it self since I bought it this summer.

Shog · December 28, 2016

I really wish I had the solution! Since I don't I'll state the obvious so maybe someone else can help you faster.
Did you check the wires for everything? Making sure the hdd is snug into the power supply and the motherboard.

Also can you monitor your power consumption somehow? It should shut everything down before brownouts but if you have an undersized/unreliable power supply the system draw at full swing might not help the situation. (Highly highly doubt it)

You can also test your drive with SeaTools from Seagate.

http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/seatools/

Edited to Add:
Worst case is that the drive is defective (or you can't find out what's wrong!) and you can contact Seagate for an RMA. Just remember to store your information for an easy copy and to wipe the drive with DBAN yourself before sending it to them.