SATA

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...

All of my case fans and my AIO cooler's radiator fans and CPU block are connected to my ARGB fan hub which came with my case (MSI Mag Forge 112R). There is no issue with the RGB on my components but rather with the power cable for the hub itself. While the PC is running, if I take out the power...

I recently bought my friend's system as he was moving abroad and I have had some concurrent issues with my motherboard. Before I switched hardware all drives worked and had 95%+ on crystalDisc. Now, my two M.2's and two SSD's work fine, but my two HDD's will not read. I have two questions...

Hi, I have an old system that I built in 2013. The system specs are as follows: Windows 10 Home 64bit Intel Core i7 4770k Asus Tuf Z87 SABERTOOTH PNY 250 GB SSD Corsair Platinum 16GB 1600mhz Dram Asus Dual OC RTX 2770 8GB Corsair 500w gold plus PSU Sama Mid Tower Case The system had been...

One of the boards on my list for an Unraid build is the ASRock N100M as a low-power option. https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/N100M/#Specification Now, it doesn't have a lot of SATA ports, but you can expand it with various controller cards and M.2 adapters. One of the M.2 slots is a Key E at...

Didnt mean to double post but thought I should add some more details and a new post seemed easier, I keep getting sporadic bluescreen crashes, seems to be mostly when I leave my computer and it goes to sleep, I know because it will be on the login screen when I come back. I then checked the...

I have an old external 3.5-inch HDD. For lack of a normal SATA-USB cable, I want to use its enclosure to connect a 2.5-inch SATA SSD to my PC's USB port. The HDD enclosure has a separate AC power cable. When I opened up the enclosure, I saw the AC power goes directly into the PCB, which has a...

I currently have 4 drives (3 SSD & 1 HDD hooked up to my Z390 PC using SATA ports) I'd like to add more storage for games and an M.2 NVMe SSD seems like a good option for that. However I read somewhere that using the M.2 slots actually disables some of the SATA slots. I can't find where I saw...

Ok, so. I bought, from Ebay recently, an MSI Z270 Gaming Pro Carbon motherboard and an i7 CPU. CPU was already seated and I have not unseated it at any point. Advertised as working fine etc. So, i got a new cooler and installed that with good thermal paste. New memory too. Mounted it in a...

I ordered a refurbished Dell Precision 3620 with an i7-7700K CPU. This is where I ordered it: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B092FM88X8 It has already shipped and is supposed to arrive on Thursday. Tonight, I happened across two threads here that mention potential issues with this...

My computer won't boot up if all my hard drives are connected to the SATA ports on the motherboard, it would power on but just stays on blackscreen and i can't even enter the BIOS. I tried disconnecting all my hard drives from the SATA ports on the motherboard and when I do that I can enter the...

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Hello, I have Asus Z97-P, It has 4 SATA connections and all of them are occupied. Is there any way I can add another HDD to this setup and can I just remove current HDDs without losing all the data on it? Thanks

Hey all, I was doing some upgrades for my computer, and I'm migrating to a new system with an NVMe SSD instead of a SATA SSD. I couldn't find the sata power cable for my new power supply (I've found them now) so I decided the easiest way to copy my data over to my new computer would be to use an...

Hey, I've just successfully cloned my old SATA SSD into an NVME and am curious on how to wipe the drive in the old SATA SSD without any issues. The old SATA has the OS on it so I felt that complicated things a little more and didn't want to just reconnect it.

I decided to add a secondary drive onto my pc build (my OS and files are currently on a Samsung SSD M.2 card). I have a 3.5" Seagate hard drive that works perfectly fine when I use an ejectable adapter that connects my HD to the USB port on my pc. My pc recognizes it and I am able to transfer...

Hello, i'm thinking of ways add more storage to my PC and was checking PCI-E to M2 SATA adapters like this one My question is how many PCI-E lanes these adapters use, i read that SATA does not use pci-e lanes, read that it uses 1 lane, i got very confused. Do i need to bifurcate my pci-e slot...