This is a repost of part of this thread here: http://ift.tt/1B0Ay12 as I thought people might be more likely to read this one.
Well the 2TB Seagate drive is pretty much dead unfortunately as it seems the platters are not spinning properly. Copying/reading data from it can drop to KB/sec speeds and my PC has failed to detect the drive a few times. Fortunately, I have been able to copy my Games and Steam folders from it to my recently added 3TB drive temporarily while I wait for my new 3TB Toshiba drive to arrive from Scan today, which has cost me £93 including delivery. It has been a slow process though due to the variable speeds the failing drive is running at and I have been unable to backup the 19GB data file for Guild Wars as it says it cannot read the source file.
I had all my music, documents, videos and pictures on that drive too but thankfully I make three backups of those to an internal and two external drives so all I have done is relocated them to the internal drive for now. I may leave them there to free space on the new drive as I will still have two external backups anyway.
Hope the Toshiba drive lasts longer...the 2TB Seagate drive wasn't even a couple of years old as it was bought when I built my current Haswell setup back in June 2013.
*UPDATE 1*
I'm having a bit of a nightmare at the moment with this new drive.
I fitted it easily enough using the same SATA and PSU cables (the latter shared with three other drives) as my old 2TB Seagate drive and once in Windows, proceeded to assign it the same drive letter, D. I then started to move the files over from my 3TB Seagate drive, where they were copied temporarily.
I noticed that the write speed in the Detailed window was very low, 5MB/sec, so I aborted the transfer (which caused Explorer to freeze) and turned my PC off. I then removed the graphics card and did the following:
1. I replaced the SATA cable I used for my old 2TB Seagate drive/new 3TB Toshiba drive with a new (blue!) Gigabyte SATAIII cable I picked up from Amazon earlier on this year. I plugged into the same SATA port. I then proceeded to shuffle the SATA cables from the other drives around so that the hard drives all used the faster Intel ports and my two BD-ROM drives used the slower (I think) ASMedia ports. All seemed to well when I booted up (well after I remembered to reconnect my GTX 980's PSU cables that is, oh-hum!) and the new Toshiba drive showed in File Explorer with 2.72 TB of space free.
I then started to copy again and the files started fast (150MB/sec) then dropped to 700 KB/sec and is currently at 111 KB/Sec with the files stukc on 23% complete. The folder I am copying is only 6.91 GB.
I suspect that my old Seagate may not have been faulty after all and that it is very likely the SATA port itself that is. The Toshiba drive is brand new and so was the Gigabyte cable so that only leaves the SATA ports, right?
I am going to have reorganise the SATA cables again to avoid port 6 (or port 1, I'm never sure how they are counted) and another put one of the hard drives on the ASMedia port, the Media/Backup drive is probably best as it would be used less frequently and therefore speed is less important.
If it is SATA port 6 that is faulty then I've wasted money on a new drive but on the bright side I will have a spare drive if one of the other 1 TB or 2 TB drives fails. Still annoying having to mess around though.
P.S. It could, of course, be the PSU cable, which is a shared one with three other drives.
P.P.S. Just checked My PC and my Toshiba D drive has now disappeared. Do you think that is likely to be a SATA port or PSU cable issue?
*UPDATE 2*
I am really getting annoyed now.
I checked the Intel SATA ports and I had the front case e-SATA cable, which I've never once used, connected to one of them so I unplugged that and connected the new Toshiba HDD to it. This new drive is now connected to a different Intel SATA port, using a new Gigabyte SATA cable and using a different PSU cable (though one that has four connectors so it is shared with three other drives).
When I booted into Windows and tried once again copying files across to the new file, it started fast then droped to sub-100 KB/sec at which one the copying stopped and Intel Rapid Storage app told me the drive had been disconnected. Sure enough, the drive disappears from the My PC window as if it has been disconnected!
What the hell is wrong with my PC?
Is it a bad idea to use one PSU cable with four connectors to power four HDDs? I have eliminated everything else as I've:
1. Changed the cable on the new Toshiba drive to a brand new and unused Gigabyte SATAIII cable;
2. Switched the Toshiba drive to a different Intel SATA port;
3. Changed the PSU cable to a different four connector one that was used to power my two BD/DVD-ROM drives (I used that because the PSU cable with two connectors was too short).
I would really appreciate any help here as it is driving me round the bend. I can only conclude that it MUST be the power connector...maybe the drive is not getting enough power because I using the same with three other SATAIII HDDs?
*UPDATE 3*
I have connected the new drive to my PSU on its own PSU cable (the short one with two connectors I mentioned earlier). The drive is still not working properly...shortly after booting into Windows, I get an Intel Rapid Storage warning that the drive has been removed and shortly after the D drive disappears from My PC.
I'm starting to wonder if I haven't replaced a faulty drive with another faulty one even though SMART reports the new Toshiba drive is 'Good'. :bang:
I'm literally at my wits' end. I really do not know what else I try. :wanker:
Well the 2TB Seagate drive is pretty much dead unfortunately as it seems the platters are not spinning properly. Copying/reading data from it can drop to KB/sec speeds and my PC has failed to detect the drive a few times. Fortunately, I have been able to copy my Games and Steam folders from it to my recently added 3TB drive temporarily while I wait for my new 3TB Toshiba drive to arrive from Scan today, which has cost me £93 including delivery. It has been a slow process though due to the variable speeds the failing drive is running at and I have been unable to backup the 19GB data file for Guild Wars as it says it cannot read the source file.
I had all my music, documents, videos and pictures on that drive too but thankfully I make three backups of those to an internal and two external drives so all I have done is relocated them to the internal drive for now. I may leave them there to free space on the new drive as I will still have two external backups anyway.
Hope the Toshiba drive lasts longer...the 2TB Seagate drive wasn't even a couple of years old as it was bought when I built my current Haswell setup back in June 2013.
*UPDATE 1*
I'm having a bit of a nightmare at the moment with this new drive.
I fitted it easily enough using the same SATA and PSU cables (the latter shared with three other drives) as my old 2TB Seagate drive and once in Windows, proceeded to assign it the same drive letter, D. I then started to move the files over from my 3TB Seagate drive, where they were copied temporarily.
I noticed that the write speed in the Detailed window was very low, 5MB/sec, so I aborted the transfer (which caused Explorer to freeze) and turned my PC off. I then removed the graphics card and did the following:
1. I replaced the SATA cable I used for my old 2TB Seagate drive/new 3TB Toshiba drive with a new (blue!) Gigabyte SATAIII cable I picked up from Amazon earlier on this year. I plugged into the same SATA port. I then proceeded to shuffle the SATA cables from the other drives around so that the hard drives all used the faster Intel ports and my two BD-ROM drives used the slower (I think) ASMedia ports. All seemed to well when I booted up (well after I remembered to reconnect my GTX 980's PSU cables that is, oh-hum!) and the new Toshiba drive showed in File Explorer with 2.72 TB of space free.
I then started to copy again and the files started fast (150MB/sec) then dropped to 700 KB/sec and is currently at 111 KB/Sec with the files stukc on 23% complete. The folder I am copying is only 6.91 GB.
I suspect that my old Seagate may not have been faulty after all and that it is very likely the SATA port itself that is. The Toshiba drive is brand new and so was the Gigabyte cable so that only leaves the SATA ports, right?
I am going to have reorganise the SATA cables again to avoid port 6 (or port 1, I'm never sure how they are counted) and another put one of the hard drives on the ASMedia port, the Media/Backup drive is probably best as it would be used less frequently and therefore speed is less important.
If it is SATA port 6 that is faulty then I've wasted money on a new drive but on the bright side I will have a spare drive if one of the other 1 TB or 2 TB drives fails. Still annoying having to mess around though.
P.S. It could, of course, be the PSU cable, which is a shared one with three other drives.
P.P.S. Just checked My PC and my Toshiba D drive has now disappeared. Do you think that is likely to be a SATA port or PSU cable issue?
*UPDATE 2*
I am really getting annoyed now.
I checked the Intel SATA ports and I had the front case e-SATA cable, which I've never once used, connected to one of them so I unplugged that and connected the new Toshiba HDD to it. This new drive is now connected to a different Intel SATA port, using a new Gigabyte SATA cable and using a different PSU cable (though one that has four connectors so it is shared with three other drives).
When I booted into Windows and tried once again copying files across to the new file, it started fast then droped to sub-100 KB/sec at which one the copying stopped and Intel Rapid Storage app told me the drive had been disconnected. Sure enough, the drive disappears from the My PC window as if it has been disconnected!
What the hell is wrong with my PC?
Is it a bad idea to use one PSU cable with four connectors to power four HDDs? I have eliminated everything else as I've:
1. Changed the cable on the new Toshiba drive to a brand new and unused Gigabyte SATAIII cable;
2. Switched the Toshiba drive to a different Intel SATA port;
3. Changed the PSU cable to a different four connector one that was used to power my two BD/DVD-ROM drives (I used that because the PSU cable with two connectors was too short).
I would really appreciate any help here as it is driving me round the bend. I can only conclude that it MUST be the power connector...maybe the drive is not getting enough power because I using the same with three other SATAIII HDDs?
*UPDATE 3*
I have connected the new drive to my PSU on its own PSU cable (the short one with two connectors I mentioned earlier). The drive is still not working properly...shortly after booting into Windows, I get an Intel Rapid Storage warning that the drive has been removed and shortly after the D drive disappears from My PC.
I'm starting to wonder if I haven't replaced a faulty drive with another faulty one even though SMART reports the new Toshiba drive is 'Good'. :bang:
I'm literally at my wits' end. I really do not know what else I try. :wanker:
HELP! Major headache replacing faulty hard drive
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