New hard drives keep dying

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Jan 27, 2017
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So i have an asus maximus vi gene micro atx lga1150

I have a main 500GB SSD for Windows and 1TB HDD for "recovery" as my second drive. And i just bought some new WD 4TB drives to put in my system.

1. I tested the drives our using a USB Dock, they showed up in windows fine, i was able to initialize them.

2. I then install the hard drives in my computer and restarted my computer. Windows then alerted me that it would check the status of my drives,

3. Computer does it's thing, boots up and then the drives dont show up in Windows anymore neither in BIOS. I take the drives out, put them back in the USB Dock and i see that it comes up but fails to initialize (basically it's dead).

Now the thing is, this is the 6TH drive that this has happened to. I never even get to use the drives, they just die as soon as i install them in the PC. So my question is, what is frying my new hard drives, but leaving my old drives that were already in my PC alone. It seems to have an issue with my new drives. But my 500GB SSD and 1TB drive are not effected by this issue at all.
 
Solution
I was able to solve the problem. Turns out the SATA power cord from my older computer (which i was using in my new computer)was faulty, it was somehow destroying the drives. All good now!
Its not the fact that the 4Tb drives have died on you.
It is because in order to see the drives you have to format them with a Gpt type partition Lamdite.

Windows will not see the drive, or any other 4Tb drive you placed in your system.

Bellow is a how to using disk part to create a GUID Gpt partition for drives over a storage capacity of 2Tb so windows can see and show the drive so you can use it Lamdite.

You must use this format type to get the 4Tb of storage capacity from the drive.


http://www.disk-partition.com/diskpart/convert-gpt-4125.html

It`s really easy to do Btw. You can have a single partition size of 4Tb or you can split the drive into two partitions of around 2 TB each, and have up to 120 partitions created on the drive of set sizes.

But that would be the sort of thing you would setup on a central server with multiple clients and user accounts to save there work ect.

 
I was able to solve the problem. Turns out the SATA power cord from my older computer (which i was using in my new computer)was faulty, it was somehow destroying the drives. All good now!
 
Solution