SATA

I have an old Acer proprietary, I basically salvaged everything in it for my new PC, I have since gave that computer to my sister so I'm trying to get it back and running, the problem is, the PSU inside this thing has no SATA power cables. I remember it had a weird six pin to sata power cable...

As the title says bought a new HDD @ 4tb (sata) and upon plugging it in it causes win10 & Win7 to load indefinitely, as well as their install medias but the drive detects in BIOS just fine. I've tried tinkering with BIOS settings, (turned off secure and fast boots, quadrochecked the boot order...

I had a working system - AIMB-274 motherboard, Windows 10 and Seagate 500G laptop drive to boot from. 16G memory. It died - the disk became corrupt. I had a clone which I replaced it with but got in a mess trying to get it going again. Short story, the PSU had leaking capacitors and the...

Hi all, I recently bought a SanDisk 1TB SSD to use as a secondary internal drive in my Dell Inspiron 2019 laptop. It already has a SATA 256gb M2 drive plugged in. I installed the SSD, it is connected to the motherboard by a ribbon cable, which was provided inside the laptop. Everything worked...

I have a Dell Precision T7820 workstation host who has 4 hard disk locations, but two of them are U2 and the other two are SATA.So, I had to buy a hard disk enclosure to hold more hard disks.But this DAS has two access points, one Type-C to USB, and one is ESATA. I would like to utilize ESATA...

Hi Internet, I come to you in times of need. I don't know how to connect the data from my HDDs to my raspberry pi. I've thought of this many, many ways and I just don't see how it's possible. Maybe you can come up with an idea? This is my setup: Raspberry pi 1 (2014) 7 HDDs (I'd like to use...

Hi I have a Ts5saf100 hard drive which came out of my broken iMac and I’ve connected it to my windows pc with a Sata cable. It connects as it makes a noise and it shows on disc management but no letter is assigned to it and it’s greyed out on the create thingy. It doesn’t show up on my pc, my...

Hello everyone, I would like to know which HDD is the better for my usage or will last me the longest, knowing that I will use them only to store informations and so they will probably increase few hundreds hours per years and few opening-closing cycles each year. I was proposed one SATA...

I am trying to keep both my SATA SSD and HDD while I install a extra m2 SSD, would it be possible? Just wanted to make sure!

I want to buy another 1TB drive and my current motherboard (Asrock B450M Pro4-F) supports only SATA M.2 drives in the additional slot. I want to buy something I'll be able to carry over when I upgrade in 3-4 years time. I had a look at some of the new AM5 B650 motherboards like the Gigabyte...

I have an HP 17-cp0700dx laptop that I want to wipe and reinstall Window 10 on. I have little knowledge on M.2 drives. This computer has a Western Digital PC SN530 NVMe SDD. I have many questions about how to do this. It has been a while since I work on any new computer. I need to be updated...

So i got a montech x3 mesh case and all the fans are daisy chained and they use molex and i was wondering if i could use this sata to molex adapter to power upp all my fans Duttek sata to molex adapter I was wondering if this specific adapter is safe

hi guys, planning to buy this MB Gigabyte Z790 D (rev. 1.0) but i couldn't find any info for using the nvme and sata. this what i want to do: Operating system on nvme 2TB for storage on sata port - 2 or 4 hdd in raid. On my older MB i had issue with this and i couldn't use all sata ports...

Desktop PC HP Prodesk 600 G5 SFF So I want to add a second SSD to this system correctly, however, the Sata cable that's currently installed(L12241-001) only allows for one SSD and power cable for CD-ROM...

Hi everyone, I recently found a Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SATA M.2 SSD listed on Flipkart (e-commerce platform), and the product description indicates it was manufactured in January 2018. I’m considering buying it to upgrade my laptop for running Windows 10. My current setup includes: Laptop...

I have an X79 motherboard from AliExpress and a SATA m.2 SSD The default configuration is for NVME m.2 and I am not sure how to change these connector clips on the motherboard so that the SATA m.2 can work. Images are attached here: View: https://imgur.com/a/kBDF6d0 If it's hard to see...

Hi, I am looking for a used or new Windows 11 Professional - Lenovo desktop tower PC with lots of HDD expansion on the motherboard. What would you recommend? Thanks, Lee

I used Fusion to design this NAS, with a size of 390x450x89mm. It can fit a MATX motherboard, and it uses a CRPS PSU (12VO). There's a reinforcement rib in the middle, and on the other side, I have the freedom to design the PCB to achieve the expandability I want. For example, I could add 12...

As the title says, my Kingston A2000 SSD is not recognized in the top slot, but seems to be working in the bottom one. Drive is healthy and working in another build. Sometimes the system boots and recognizes that NVMe for a while, say 10 to 30 minutes, and then suddenly it disappears and isn't...

Ok, Let's start over. There are 4 hard drives on the Sata buss. They all show up in the bios but when Win11 boots up it there are no sata drives. Three of the drives are in raid 0 mode and the fourth drive is a solo SSD drive. Normally if one raid drive fails then the windows program Intel rapid...

Hi all, I went on holiday to see my family and it turns out that while I was there the desktop of my father suddenly stopped working and when starting he is getting the message: "Press ESC in 1 seconds to skip startup.nsh, any other key to continue" After searching, this is because the BIOS...

Hey Guys. I'm trying my hand at reviving an old PC for some light home server usage. I bought an old dell with a B85M-G43 mobo. It didn't have an HDD so I got a 10tb HGST SATA6.0 7200rpm refurbished off amazon. I tried attaching it to the old PC and it would not show up as present on the BIOS...

hello everyone i got a little problem with a computer i got some HDD's to scan and when i get to non-boot ones , one dissapears i use - 1 TB Toshiba P300 for Boot with 3 partitions C D E - 4 TB Toshiba P300 for storage - 4 TB WD Purple for storage - DVD-RW ( ODD ) STORY i had a Tehnoware FAL...

Hi, I'm trying to build a homeserver from stuff I have on hand. In general, I have a Chinese motherboard MACHINIST E5 RS9 :) to this a friend is to send three SAMSUNG PM863a 960GB drives. The motherboard supports SATA 3.0 drives. I still have an old HP P212 sas controller with 512MB of memory...

What should I be looking for when buying a drive for this PC (Lenovo s500 10hd0037uk)? There's no drive in it currently, it was using a KINGSTON SUV400S37480G (upgraded from the original drive), Graphics card is a Geforce GT610 Synergy 1GB Graphics card, 16GB RAM. I'm looking to get an SSD...

So I used to DJ quite a bit back in the day….I have two Seagate Wall Powered External Harddrives and Two LaCie Wall Powered External Harddrives These drives haven’t been on for at least 8 years. I try to plug them in and nothing. They don’t power on or anything. Tried different cables...

This is a problem i have been having since the i upgraded my PC. I used to have a Gigabyte GA H61M with an i5 2500 and 8gb of ram, with a kingston 250gb SSD plugged for the OS and a 1TB HDD for other storage, along a GTX 1050 Ti, which died after some time and i replaced it with a RX 6600. All...

Hello everyone. I have this pc: CPU: intel xeon e3 1270 v3 3,5ghz RAM: 1X8GB ddr3 1600mhz 1x4GB ddr3 1600mhz GPU: Geforce 1060 GTX 6gb (edited) STORAGE: SSD kingston 500 gb MOTHERBOARD: asus h81m-k PSU: SENTEY 600W 80 PLUS BRONZE HBP600-GS...

As the title mentions I need to add more SATA ports to my Plex machine for extra HDDs (no SSDs). I have a free PCIe 2.0 x4x slot and I was wondering if it is okay if I use a PCIe 4X to 8 or 6 SATA Expansion Card or if it will be too much for the slot to handle. Please advise.

Hi, I’ve recently attempted to upgrade my gaming pc considerably, but after getting everything up and running it wont seem to recognise my two HDDS together. Intermittently, it recognises one, through using the other cable or another port but I have no idea what the issue is exactly, I’m trying...

Hello. I just put a new SSD in and it doesn't show anywhere, not even in BIOS. I know that it's working because i took it out from a working PC. I have Gigabyte B760 gaming x ax motherboard.I have already installed NVMe SSD with Windows 11 and it's working.The new SSD i got is Sata SSD (B+M)...

So recently I bought a Samsung 870 EVO 250GB SATA SSD, but it turns out that it's a fake one! also, the Samsung Magician software doesn't detect it, which makes it a counterfeit product. the model number matches, but the serial numbers aren't matching also the benchmark appears to be...

To sum it up, I'm a pc gamer whose barely scratched the surface of actually understanding the tech and I'm trying to find a way to expand my pc's storage capability externally in a way that essentially future proofs it and ends the cycle of deleting games to make room for others in todays...

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.

Hello there, This is my first post here, so please don't bash me if I'm posting in the wrong place. I'm in the middle of a technical crisis here and need your help finding adaptors to this setup, as I'm out of my depth when it comes to hardware compatibility. I have a spare hardware that I...

Hello, I have a system with an M.2 SSD and an HDD. I have Windows 11 installed on the M.2 SSD. The HDD is empty and I would like to use it for simple data storage (no RAID). The issue is that I don't see the HDD in Windows (including in Disk Management). I do see some references to it in BIOS...

Hello, I would like some help as I am finding it difficult to solve my issue. On an old PC I have a non modular psu: Corsair TX750. I have run out of SATA connectors but have plenty of 4 Pin, 6+2 pin and also an 8 pin male connector. However I am unable to find SATA power cables with female...

So, I have this lenovo m900 SFF and I'm having an issue with finding the right sata power cable for it since it's a proprietary cable ( square 4 pin ) so I saw this particular one 8 pin dual sata cable. Is it safe to use this for my m900? or will this cause a problem?

Hi everyone, I've just put my new build together few days ago and I've installed Linux Mint 21.2 (Victoria) on it, but I'm having a lot of issues with either the build, the motherboard specifically (which is why I'm opening up this thread in the MoBos forum), or with Linux Mint. But one of the...

I have a Dell G3 15 3500, my laptop only has 256Gb of storage so I wanted to upgrade. I got an old SSD and used diskpart clean all to wipe it. Still the drive isn’t detected at all, not in bios, not in disk management, device manger, diskpart etc. Out of ideas, I put the drive in the PCIe 1 slot...