Seagate Barracuda 2Tb power connector problem

[Sturmgewehr_44]

Today I did some cleaning up in my case. It didn't go so well though. I was able to reposition all my drives, and get the cables into the back, which tidied things up a little bit, which is good.

However, as I was connecting my drives again, I noticed that a piece was falling off the power connector of my 2TB Seagate Barracuda. This turned out to be the square piece that holds the power cable into it's respective connector. This prevented me from being able to fit the power cable in, and as a result the cable looked like this: http://i.imgur.com/qcwt3os.jpg (notice to the far left that the square-ish plastic section is missing). This is a recertified drive, so it never was in a pristine condition. The PSU power connector fit in well enough, however I don't think it was being held in well, and as a result the harddrive was never detected. Here is a picture of the PSU connector: http://i.imgur.com/edtH5Fz.jpg

It is quite a shame. Some of the pins for the drive weren't completely straight, but I don't think they ever were, so I don't think that could be a cause. I had more than 200Gb stored on it, but nothing really critical.

Is there anything that can be done about this? I know I'll need to get another drive, unless something fantastic happens and I can get it working. Should I order a WD Black 2Tb drive? After this experience, I can't bring myself to trust Seagate again. and I've heard plenty of poor things about them.

Edit: I was able to get the connector like this: http://i.imgur.com/MiqSO0V.jpg , but it still didn't detect the drive. It is still rather crooked. It's not completely straight like the other drives are. To the left, you can see the missing section, that secures the power cable into the drive's connection.

 

[Sturmgewehr_44]

It is the UEFI Bios. Boot times won't get better. You may just get used to it. NO effect on uninstalling it as it is on a different chipset which is why you needed other drivers for it. To use the Asmedia sata ports you need the drivers, just like you loaded the Intel chipset driveers for the intel sata ports.

That's interesting then, because I've had my Bluray drive in an Asmedia port since I built my PC, until today. I don't think I had the drivers though.

I don't understand. How could uninstalling it not alleviate or fix it?

Is it possible I was being stupid and I messed it up? Maybe I shouldn't have installed those drivers..

I guess I can chalk this down as being because of having a larger harddrive in my system, and not much else.

 

[Brighttail]

Well is the hard drive being recognized for the full 3TB? It should be and yes a larger hard drive will be a little slower because there are extra platters and extra headers.

 

[Sturmgewehr_44]

Well is the hard drive being recognized for the full 3TB? It should be and yes a larger hard drive will be a little slower because there are extra platters and extra headers.

Yeah, it's being recognised as 3TB, minus a few 100Gb because of the formatting. It is technically 2.72TB.

I feel like I've asked this already, but is it generally plausible for a separate harddrive, such as this 3TB one, to slow down a boot drive, such as my SSD? How could it do that? Is it because the Bios is loading all harddrives in preparation for booting into Windows and this takes longer with a 3TB mechanical?

About the boot times. I didn't notice any difference in speed until I shut down to receive the changes made by the Asmedia controller. However, I don't know if that matters, considering I booted only twice into Windows between formatting the new drive and installing the controller, so it may not be legit.


However, I'm pretty sure I didn't have the Asmedia controller installed until today and those ports were otherwise working fine.

 

[Brighttail]

Short answer It may only affect booting times due to the driver being loaded, otherwise it has no direct influence on the drive. As for previously it is possible that windows installed it for you, windows is good for that. Anyway I'm going to go do some stuff now.. Good luck!