I bought a 2TB Seagate ST2000DM008 drive, plugged it in with a generic molex-sata adapter because my pre-built PC's PSU (which is 500w) only has 2 sata power connectors. The hard drive keeps making beeping noises (I'm sure that it's the hard drive, there are no beeps when I remove it), but it formatted fine. I used CrystalDiskInfo (causes beeps when I run it) and I tested the drive with SeaTools Short Generic, Short DST and S.M.A.R.T. tests, all came up fine (but it did beep twice near the end of the Short DST test and once during the 3rd part of the Short Generic test), so I don't think the drive is broken.
I copied two games onto the HDD as another test, played for a few minutes, made a text document on the HDD, tried downloading a file onto it, none of those things produced any beeps. Is there something wrong with the molex-sata adapter, idk what else could be going on here? Btw, I got no power hungry CPU nor GPU, just a Ryzen 3200G with it's Vega 8 iGPU. Also, I got 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz RAM, Kingston SA400S37240G 240GB SSD, HP MB0500GCEHE 500GB HDD and Biostar A320MH mobo (never did any BIOS updates).
I copied two games onto the HDD as another test, played for a few minutes, made a text document on the HDD, tried downloading a file onto it, none of those things produced any beeps. Is there something wrong with the molex-sata adapter, idk what else could be going on here? Btw, I got no power hungry CPU nor GPU, just a Ryzen 3200G with it's Vega 8 iGPU. Also, I got 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2666MHz RAM, Kingston SA400S37240G 240GB SSD, HP MB0500GCEHE 500GB HDD and Biostar A320MH mobo (never did any BIOS updates).