[SOLVED] Why would an HDD disconnect and reconnect while on load?

[i-am-L]

I have 2 HDDs- 500GB and 1TB and 1 SSD for OS.
My games are stored in the 1TB Disk.

Whenever I play games like R6, PUBG or Destiny 2 or GTA V, this HDD would disconnect and reconnect. So in case of gaming, the game and steam crash.
The HDD is a Seagate Barracuda 1TB.

I am not able to find out the problem.
My PC specs are-
AMD FX 4100 at 3.8GHz,
8GB of DDR3 1866MHz RAM,
Galax GTX 1060 6GB OC (not OC'd),
Gigabyte 78LMT-S2PT rev.4.x motherboard,
Seagate Barracuda 500GB and 1TB
Samsung 750 EVO SSD
and PSU: 500W

SSD and 1TB HDD are connected via same power cable while the 500GB is connected separately.
BIOS Settings for the disks are set to AHCI

I thought PSU might be the problem until I encountered the same problem while copying 40GB of data within the same disk. Thanks to Steam's Game Installation process. (I wasn't playing anything)

Another thing I observed while copying that data, the average write speeds it gave were around 40MB/s. Is this normal?

Please suggest ways or tools to diagnose and solve this problem.

 

[jay32267]

My thoughts are that the HD is on it's way out and I'd be getting any data off of it that I thought to be valuable and I'd be replacing it because I don't think it's long for this world.

 

[i-am-L]

My thoughts are that the HD is on it's way out and I'd be getting any data off of it that I thought to be valuable and I'd be replacing it because I don't think it's long for this world.

It is a new one! Barely been a year since I bought!.

 

[jay32267]

I'm just saying.....I've had drives act this way and it never ended well.
I totally admit I might be wrong with your particular drive.
...but it won't hurt to get any valuable data off (if you have any) just in case.

 

[i-am-L]

Any suggestions? Please?

 

[sizzling]

Agree, sounds like a dying drive. Even new drives can have faults. Seagate will have a tool on their website that allows you to check the health of the drive, I would try that.

 

[i-am-L]

The disk even peaked at 100% with readings for R/W speeds and latency at 0 in Task Manager. When I launched steam after crashing.
What could this mean?

 

[Phillip Corcoran]

My thoughts are that the HD is on it's way out and I'd be getting any data off of it that I thought to be valuable and I'd be replacing it because I don't think it's long for this world.

It is a new one! Barely been a year since I bought!.

Don't let that fool you -- I've had new HDDs in the past that haven't lasted six months of normal/light use.