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5 Identical discs connected to my motherboard, but which is which?

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I have on my ASRock X299 OC Formula 7 Disks and 1 Blu-ray connected to the 8 SATA ports in following order:

SATA3_A1 (Asmedia controlled): WD

SATA3_A2 (ASMedia controlled): WD

SATA3_0: Samsung 860 Evo

SATA3_1: Samsung 860 Evo

SATA3_2: WD

SATA3_3: WD

SATA3_4: WD

SATA3_5: Blue-ray writer

 

So, in my Windows 10 PC, all 5 WD hard disks and two SSD's show up. But which is which?

Samsung 860 Evo : Games

Samsung 860 Evo: Virtual Machines

WD: Movies

WD: Series

WD: Home video

and then 2 WD connected to the ASMedia controllers are: WD: Backup 1 and Backup 2

 

But I want to know if (for example) the disc "Movies" is connected to SATA3_3 or maybe SATA3_2 without disconnecting physically one hard drive at a time and each time boot up to see what volumename is missing... Is that possible?

Mark Claassen

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You could download CrystalDiskInfo, which shows you serial numbers of the drives, and than compare to those on drives themselves.

CPU: i7 3770K | MB: EVGA Z77 FTW | RAM: HyperX Savage 2400Mhz 16GB | GPU: R9 280X Toxic | Cooler: Scythe Fuma | PSU: CoolerMaster B600

SSD: Crucial MX300 525GB | HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB - Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB

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True, but then I still have to physically take each HD out my case and note the serial number… What a drag!

Mark Claassen

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In the BIOS you can enable SATA port hot swap, so you cna plug in drives after the system's finish booting.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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