SATA

While there are tons of Sata to USB adapters available, I can’t find any info on going the other way. I need to adapt a WD external USB drive to a data input for data recovery. Unlike previous drives from both WD and Seagate, this is a native USB drive it does not simply go through a data to...

Hi all! I hope you can help me I recently purchased a new Kingston A400 960 GB SSD. When I connected it to my computer, I used a power cable that I didn't realize it was a Type 3 cable from a Corsair power supply (CSM650, I have a NZXT Hale). So when I turned it on, it started to burn (I saw...

Hi, my old GTX 1060 3GB has recently died, and I got a great deal on an almost brand new GTX 1660Ti (for 120 bucks, with still valid warranty...). When I bought my PC, I knew very little about the hardware, that was 4 years ago. The previous 1060 was powered by: MBD->6-pin...

Hi, I replaced my laptop DVD Rom with a Samsung evo 870 500gb. it works just fine but after a couple of minutes of using it, it switches down to Sata2 from Sata3. And it's speed becomes half. I used to have a WD Blue and didn't experience such a problem. I have a HDD also in my laptop but it's...

Ok, a backstory: So I badly needed a storage upgrade since I'm currently running 5 small (Mix of 128s, 500s, 320s) SSDs and HDDs. Thought I'd move to all SSD storage and I wanted to use two separate SSDs. One as boot drive and the other as my main drive for storing data and games etc. My...

I just upgraded from a 650W PSU to an EVGA 1000GT, and when I tried to boot I got the CPU fan error. I made sure all connections were seated snugly, and tried plugging the SATA power plug for the cooler into SATA 1-4 on the PSU, and the peripheral slot to no avail. Everything else works fine...

Does anyone know where to buy a removable hard drive drawer for SATA hard drives ? My case has only 3 x 3.5" bays for SATA internal desktop hard drives and I need to put in another hard drive. Do these exist ? I used to use the removable hard drive drawers for IDE HDD but cannot find this same...

Hello everyone, I hope someone will be able to help me find out if I've bought a broken HDD. Short of it is I bought a HDD, it wouldn't show in 'my computer' yet the docking station appears fine. I can't initialize or do much with it. I'll add some images for context with a breakdown (inserting...

Hello All, I am wondering if this board could be added to a PC and be powered by the current PSU? If so are there any adapter cables that can utilise spare Molex cables and turn them in to a 10 pin EPS ( I think its an EPS ). Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Cheers See pics below, If...

To start here are the relevant specs: Motherboard: ASUS TUF Gaming B450-PLUS II SSD: SK Hynix SC308 128GB M.2 SATA SSD The SSD in question currently contains an old Windows 10 installation, and I'm trying to reformat it for use as a normal storage drive. I already have a 2.5" SATA SSD with my...

Hi, I have a Fujitsu Esprimo P400 mini tower, but the four Sata sockets won't allow four decides, only three. It's a mixture of behavior... The forth device would not be recognized or the forth device would be recognized, but an existing Sata device would be made unavailable. I'm wondering...

Hi all, First time visitor and poster to these forums. I'm at a complete loss on this one. I have done a fresh build with a Asus ROG STRIX-E Z790 motherboard., PSU is Thermaltake 1650 Toughpower GF3 PSU and a 13th gen processer. I have 3 NVME drives installed which were detected with no...

Well, I'm about to spend some money on a setup, but came across a major question. I found two HDDs. Both SATA. Very different storages. One 20 TB and the other 8TB. But what's intriguing are the specs. 4TB one says 3000 megabytes per sec 20TB says 285 megabytes per sec but they also include the...

Hello, i'm looking for some SSD, which is at least 480GB to store some of my games and steam library. I don't care if it's SATA or M.2 I'm assuming that i don't need DRAM? Would something like Samsung 980 be fine, or i can possibly go for some cheap SATA with even higher capacity?

I have a right angle sata power cable which makes it difficult to mount my SSD on the back of my Chassis. I need to get an extension that is flat and connect it to that right angle power cable. I am just wondering can I buy any extension and not have an issue with the PSU frying my SSD? I have a...

I saved up and bought a WD80EAZZ (8TB, Western Digital blue) last month. I was an idiot and didn't have it properly secured in my case. Long story short: the plastic support brackets broke off the hard drive's SATA connector, the pins at least look alright: I've scoured and seen some similar...

Windows 10 updated and restarted automatically while i was at work. i came home and was able to log in and after 2 minutes everything started freezing up and i got a BSOD. I did not record the error code as i thought this was a one off crash. When i tried to boot again i got sent to the...

When I connect my HDD to my PSU SATA cable, it doesn't turn on. The PSU is a cougar gx modular one, I've tried 3 different SATA cables (all of them are 8 pin - 5 for real - to 3 or 4 sata connectors in chain, none of the connectors work). I've tested the HDD with an external PSU (transformer...

Hello dear Forum visitors! I really need your help. I've been sitting without a PC for a month The computer sees the hard drives, but does not load them. Even at first I didn't install Windows on them. I decided to change the power supply, it seemed to be in it and buy an ssd. Here it is -...

Hi, just had an AIO replaced via RMA, and don't want to go through it again, currently running my replaced AIO via Sata power through an adapter, I have heard keeping the AIO at a consistent speed is beneficial for life span. The cooler is a Lian Li Galahad 240mm. Thank you!

Is Teamgroup SSD Vulcan Z series good SATA SSD? Any comparison?

Hi the ssd (tried nvme and SATA) hasn't been showing up in the bios, I've tried using all SATA slots (for the SATA SSD) and the nvme ssd worked in another pc but I'm not sure what else to do my motherboard is ga a320m s2h (rev 1) and the bios version is at F53 so not sure if I should update it...

So, long story short, my PC was working perfectly fine until my PSU got fried by high voltage. After 6 months of not using my PC bought new one but now a new problem is there. I started the PC and instead of loading up Windows normally it says "Enter a valid bootable media". And also my BIOS...

For my new build i went with a Samsung 980 500 GB, and i thought i'd add a 1 TB HDD as a 2nd drive, but it's not much more to get another SSD. However i'm really confused as to how PCI lanes work, and if my 2nd drive should be another m.2 or a SATA SSD. I'm running an i7-13700K with a ROG...

Hi, I have a GIGABYTE Aorus B550 Elite V2 motherboard, currently running 1 M.2 NVME & 4 SATA drives, planning due to two failing mechanical HDDs to replace them with 1 SATA SSD & 1 m.2 NVME SSD, thing is, I can't figure out if my board allows to use all M.2 & SATA ports at the same time, I know...

Hi, I’m currently using a notebook, but there are a few files on my previous computer’s HDD that I need. I have searched countless sites, and either they don’t have one (not even Curry’s PC World to my shock), or I’m just not sure if it’s right for my HDD. I have a Western Digital Black Sata...

Basically, at a random point of time when I reboot my machine it won't boot. It'll get stuck at the "ASUS" BIOS logo. And then when I unplug, reboot, and plug the SSD back in, it boots just fine. No errors during use! Another thing, when I try to boot off a USB drive with the SSD plugged in it...

Hi there, my GPU can't be fully seated into my top PCIe slot because the SATA ports are getting in the way. It fits into the bottom PCIe and works fine because there is no obstruction. I have a Z590 Pro4 motherboard and my GPU is a 3070 Ti. My case is a Corsair 4000D Airflow. What can I do? For...

I saw a similar topic but I think I'm supposed to start a new thread. I LOVE the Gig. Z390 AORUS and have NO trouble with it until now. I have a Samsung 970 EVO NVME installed in the M2.A slot, which is working fine. I have FOUR other hard drives which DO SHOW in Windows 10 and I use them...

Hi everyone, my motherboard is MSI B450 Mortar Max. It has 2 SATA connectors and I'm already using them, but I recently bought another SATA SSD that I need to connect. What options do I have? Is there some kind of extender that I can make more connectors out of these two? Thanks

I got a Ramsta M.2 NVMe SSD sata from someone, and the problem is, my computer doesn't have any nvme slot in the motherboard cause its an old desktop. I wonder if there is a way to convert this nvme to sata? I know that I will lose lots of bandwidth but its better than having an old HDD. If...

I recently bought a new Crucial MX500 to add onto my PC in addition to my other 2 drives. My motherboard (Tomahawk B350) has 4 SATA ports, but the most accessible 2 are of course already taken. The other 2 are blocked by my new GPU, which is quite large. I do have SATA cables with a 90 degree...

Hey everyone. Please see my saved parts here I tried cloning over the 500GB M.2 boot drive to the 1TB M.2 drive (with Marcrium). But I can’t boot from the 1TB Drive after cloning. The compatibility notes say: "When the motherboard M.2 slot M2_1 is used, two SATA 6 Gb/s ports are disabled "...

Hi all Lets say I have windows 10 running its os on a sata ssd and had 3x hyper-v VM's os running on a m.2 NVMe 4th gen each(3x). Will the vm's run faster if I upgrade the host sata ssd to a m.2 NVMe 4th gen ? Every .5 of a sec matters.

Hey friends. I’m looking into buying the strimer plus V2 cables, but I’m just curious, when it comes to plugging them in to power would it be safe to plug the controller into the same sata power cable that I already have a HDD plugged into? I know the sata power cable has multiple plug ins so...

I'm looking to get an M.2 or a new SSD to add as faster storage. I currently have Windows on a 500gb SSD and have 2 other HDD's for storage. It'd be easier to install an M.2 as I've misplaced my C70's second hard drive cage and would have to buy another sata cable as well - but if I could get...

Can anyone help me fix my SSD? This is my 2 TB SSD with everything I ever have owned on it. The SSD was connected and got jammed in an odd way in my PC case when I was moving it around yesterday. The plastic piece of the SATA connector snapped off inside the SATA cable. The pins are completely...

Question is: Will it consider as basic pocket USB, or will the windows want to format the ssd every time i unplug or plug in ? Bcs i want it to use the 2.5 SSD as a USB basically, sometimes use sometimes not, wont be plugged all the time, this is the thingy...

When I turn my PC on it skips past the boot screen and goes to a black screen with white letters and says asmedia 106x SATA Controller ver 0.90 AHCI Mode Copyright (C) Asmedia Technologies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. S.M.A.R.T Supported Using PCIE Gen 2 SATA PM 0 Port 1 ASUS DRW-24B1ST...

Hey, So SATA ports 5 and 6 don't recognize any drives. Drives themselves work just fine, tested with multiple cables, ports, and systems. Is there some kind of limitation to x570? I couldn't find anything online so, this is my last resort now. System specs are below. Any help is appreciated...