- Jun 1, 2020
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To try and keep this short:
I built my PC with a Kingston 256gb ssd and a 1tb seagate barracuda hdd. Everything was fine for the first year or so, I had my windows on my ssd and the games on my hdd.
The problems began when the games that were on my hdd would freeze, not load textures properly, etc. I confirmed the issue by moving them to my ssd where they worked fine. My hdd would also make lots of noise. So, I changed my HDD for a new one, the same model though, but from a different store. The problems were gone, until... they came back.
Around a month later I am having the same issues that I had with the old HDD. Now, what are the chances of getting 2 defective hard drives? Or maybe its just that seagate barracudas are bad?
I also tried changing the SATA cable, which I think did not do much either.
Now, an interesting observation that I came to, was that when my games decided to not work, I would take out my HDD, and blow on the connection port. After that it would work fine for some time. What?
And now, the most recent issue - I got used to just playing CSGO, which is on my ssd. It worked fine. But in the past month I have had it randomly crash - stop responding. This last time, once it crashed, even my task manager did not respond, nor did my volume mixer.
Does anyone have any idea what this could be caused by?
Specs:
Ryzen 5 2600
RX 580
B450 Aorus elite v2
Be quiet 600 w psu
16gb Ram 3000mhz
I built my PC with a Kingston 256gb ssd and a 1tb seagate barracuda hdd. Everything was fine for the first year or so, I had my windows on my ssd and the games on my hdd.
The problems began when the games that were on my hdd would freeze, not load textures properly, etc. I confirmed the issue by moving them to my ssd where they worked fine. My hdd would also make lots of noise. So, I changed my HDD for a new one, the same model though, but from a different store. The problems were gone, until... they came back.
Around a month later I am having the same issues that I had with the old HDD. Now, what are the chances of getting 2 defective hard drives? Or maybe its just that seagate barracudas are bad?
I also tried changing the SATA cable, which I think did not do much either.
Now, an interesting observation that I came to, was that when my games decided to not work, I would take out my HDD, and blow on the connection port. After that it would work fine for some time. What?
And now, the most recent issue - I got used to just playing CSGO, which is on my ssd. It worked fine. But in the past month I have had it randomly crash - stop responding. This last time, once it crashed, even my task manager did not respond, nor did my volume mixer.
Does anyone have any idea what this could be caused by?
Specs:
Ryzen 5 2600
RX 580
B450 Aorus elite v2
Be quiet 600 w psu
16gb Ram 3000mhz
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