Recent content by Jon Chew

UPDATE I finally had a professional look at my computer, and the solution was something really stupid. When I built the computer three years ago, I mistakenly plugged an RGB header of some kind into the motherboard, where it didn't belong, which caused the motherboard to siphon off power that...

Oh damn it, I checked again. It is a 3.5 drive after all, I have no idea how I misread that before. Sorry about that—you’re probably right about the power requirements.

Thank you all for looking into this so thoroughly! I unfortunately won’t have access to my computer for a couple of days so I won’t be able to follow up until then. You’re absolutely right, 2.5 was the form factor, not the capacity. It’s a 2 TB drive, my bad. Thanks for pointing that out.

Reliability History didn't give me anything, but Event Viewer got it:

I don't know what the technical term is, but this is the kind of cable I'm using to power my drives. Everything I've seen online suggests this cable is designed to handle several drives at once. I don't have any spare data cables on-hand, but I've already tried swapping them between the drives...

I've had intermittent trouble with my SSD, usually in the form of it randomly appearing and disappearing (both from Windows and from the BIOS). After trial and error I seem to have narrowed it down to a power problem. The SDD seems to work fine when plugged into SATA and power, but using that...