Question My computer hates 4TB drives ?

[sklemetti]

I have a PowerSpec G151 computer with an ASRock B250M-HDV motherboard.

I had a 4TB WD drive from Nov 2022 and it went bad in July 2023.
I replaced it with an other 4TB WD drive (D). Then suddenly the first one started working again so I used that for online backup drive (E)
Then E went totally dead in Nov 2023 and I replaced that with another WD 4TB drive. That was giving some problems but it was good for a backup drive that I called J.
Then in Feb 2024 drive D died and I replaced that with a Seagate 4TB drive.
Then 4/4/2024 something happened where both D & J went bad. J is totally dead. BIOS reads it but Windows doesn't.

D, the Seagate, works but gives lag. I then renamed that to J.
On 4/4 I got a new WD TB drive (New D) and that gives problems. Event viewer shows "An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk1\DR1 during a paging operation." to where it ends up with "Disk 1 has been surprise removed."

All along I have a 1TB drive (F) that has been working great.
I have a Hitachi 3TB drive that gives write errors but otherwise works fine.

This is 5 x 4TB drives, 4 WD ones and 1 Seagate that went bad in a year and half, my other 2 are fine.

Is there something with 4TB drives that the computer hates?
Is the problem with the drives or the MB or something else?

What would be a good data drive? Internal SSD?

 

[Lutfij]

Powerspec G151
What is the make and model of the PSU in your prebuilt? Hw old is the unit in your prebuilt? BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time?

 

[sklemetti]

Powerspec G151
What is the make and model of the PSU in your prebuilt? Hw old is the unit in your prebuilt? BIOS version for your motherboard at this moment of time?

PowerSpec® G151

BIOS AMI P2.20 5/11/2017

That 1TB drive was the original system disk which has an install date of 9/15/2018

PSU: EVGA 400W (see specs below)

Perhaps time for a new computer ?

400 Watt Power Supply​ Specifications Total Output 400 Watts​ Input 115VAC​ Input 230VAC​ Output +12V(1)​ Output −12V​ Output +5V​ Output +3.3V​ Output +5VSB​ +3.3V & +5V​ 10A​ 5A​ 30A​ 0.3A​ 17A​ 18A​ 2A​ 110W​ Connectors ​ Motherboard Power​ Drive Power​ ​ 1​ 20 + 4 Pin 3​ 4 Pin Molex ​ ​ 1​ 4 + 4 Pin CPU 4​ SATA Auto Switching​ 1​ 6 + 2 Pin Video 1​ Floppy Yes​

 

[hotaru.hino]

I'd say it's time for a new computer, otherwise we'd probably be chasing hardware gremlins for a while.

Though have you tried the drives in another computer?

 

[TerryLaze]

Mobos of that time usually only go up to 2Tb and need additional drivers/software to see larger drives.
If the mobo sees them but windows doesn't it could be they get corrupted as soon as you fill them up with more than 2tb of data.

 

[thestryker]

I'd suggest trying the drives in an inexpensive external bay or just an adapter. If they work there then it would be worth trying different data cables in the PC first.

It could also be a faulty power supply.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Mobos of that time usually only go up to 2Tb and need additional drivers/software to see larger drives.
If the mobo sees them but windows doesn't it could be they get corrupted as soon as you fill them up with more than 2tb of data.

The 2TB limit was an MBR issue, and only for partition sizes. There's nothing stopping earlier computers from using larger partition sizes provided the OS knew how to use GPT partitions.

 

[sklemetti]

Ok, this is so weird.
Yesterday I got an SSD internal to use as my primary data (D) and an SSD external for backup of videos.
As I was copying the data over, the new WD drive and the Seagate were working fine. No noise and no lag.

When those 2 drives went bad, my Thunderbird inbox crashed and went to a 0 byte file and I didn't realize that and backed that up to my external Backup.

I then plugged in the prior WD drive that was not working and now it is working and got my inbox back. I then plugged in two other WD drives that had not been working and now both are working fine. Something triggered in the computer to where the non-working drives are now working.