SSD and Mechanical Nightmare the war rages on

[fierce phoenix]

So, I bought a
PNY CS1311 SSD 120GB (actual 111GB) OS Drive

and decided to buy a

Desktop HDD Seagate 1TB SATA, AF ST1000DM003

I am just tired of using 4 drives when 2 can do the work.

My System: (Parts have died since 2007 so I am fixing it)
Asus P5K-E mobo that replaced the XFX 680i LTi
Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.40 Ghz
8GG DDR2 800Mhz
Geforce 960 GTX which replaced the Nvidia 8600 GT
1050 watt PSU
New DVD Burner (Best Buy nothing special)
Case is a Raidmax case (it was cheap )
I also bought all new SATA III Cables they are SATAI II III compatible

The Problems:
In the BIOS I set the SATA's to AHCI the only other option is IDE (Enhanced)
Before I reinstalled Windows 10 64 bit Pro Clean install I wiped both drives with Dban to ensure a clean surface and no lingering data use the Quick Erase 1 pass
The Installed Windows 10 64 bit Pro Clean Install
Once the OS was up and updated I shut down and connected the Seagate 1TB drive (again brand new) and then the system would not boot like it forgot where the boot disk was (ssd). I simply restarted in hopes of magic will help. It worked everything seemed to be fine. The Seagate was NOT in Disk Management or in This PC... I shut down disconnect and reconnect to ensure a good connection. Restarted seemed fine the disk showed up I formated and started transferring the data 760GB to the 1TB. It started at 247MB/s and down down down to 2.45MB/s then back up to 110MB/s Its all over the place 3 hrs and finally done. Go to open one of the files on the Seagate 1TB and can't find disk. It is still there, but it is not there. Lawd restarted again.

Now at POST it states
auto-detecting AHCI port 1....IDE DISK
auto-detecting AHCI port 2....CD-ROM
auto-detecting AHCI port 5....
And it sits there for 45 mins Port 5 is the Seagate 1TB Port 1 is the PNY SSD

It gets worse: Restart again Checksum not something supposed to be your PC needs repair.
Memory Diagnostic at 02% errors
Remove all 4 sticks (8GB) and reseat rerun test no errors.
Any random combination of SATA ports 1-6 it may work it may not, but only when using 2 drives and it doesn't matter which 2 drives as long as 1 is the SSD. So FINE, I went back to the BIOS set everything back to default which put the SATA's under IDE not AHCI whipped and reinstalled Windows 10 64 Pro. Same thing over and over and over and over. The PNY SSD works super fast by itself as soon as any mechanical in attached random crap starts happening. I have verified that the mechanicals are fine and the SSD is fine.
I am about to just toss it off a cliff...

 

[dudeman509]

At this point, I would say try a different cable on the HDDs if you have not done that already - I didn't see that called out specifically. Perhaps use the one for your CD drive.

 

[fierce phoenix]

At this point, I would say try a different cable on the HDDs if you have not done that already - I didn't see that called out specifically. Perhaps use the one for your CD drive.

Yeah bought 5 SATA III cables samething.