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Building a NAS - cannot get HDDs to work, is there something I'm doing wrong?
I am trying to build a NAS, here are the specs of the system:
- AMD Ryzen 9 7950x3D
- 128GB DDR4 (3200MHz?)
- RTX 4070
- 1TB 970 evo
- 4 6TB WD Red Plus
- Focus GX-1000 1000w PSU
So whenever I plug ...
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How can I use the full 6 Gbit/s mode on my SATA HDD?
I am using an old WD My Book (don't know which version, but it's most likely the one from the video How to open a WD my book case) with a WD 2 TB HDD. It is connected via mini USB b <=> USB A to ...
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Why are these SATA bus ports different?
I bought several larger 3.5" HDDs in SATA format and two of them have a different port on them and will not mate with the external enclosure.
One of them is a 3TB and the other is a 6 TB. The 6TB ...
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Copying large video files to external hard drive (connected via a SATA III to USB 3.0 hub) universally causes file corruption
The files are perfectly fine on my server's local SSD, but when I try to copy them to the ext4 logical volume I have set up on top of a volume group that contains only this HDD, where the size of the ...
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Why doesn't My Computer show my external SATA Hard Drive, when it's detected by Device Manager + Disk Management?
Please see red arrows below. Device Manager + Disk Management are detecting my SATA HD (Hard Drive).
But why does My Computer fail to showcase my SATA HD?
I perused External Hard Drive doesn't ...
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How does my spinning HDD reach 320 MB/s?
While creating an image of a (mostly empty) 1TB spinning hard disk, I was expecting a read speed of around 120 MB/s, and on the first blocks it was like that, but after that, most of the time it was ...
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Fedora: How to reduce the permission requirements for mounting/writing on SATA HDDs?
I am using Fedora, Plasma spin. I have a couple of HDDs connected via SATA. Unlike Ubuntu and its kin, mounting the drives requires a password by default, and they are mounted as read-only. How can I ...
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Connecting interal SATA HDD on eSATA connector
I had bought by mistake a cable that has SATA connector on one end and eSATA on the other.
My intention was it to have SATA connectors on both ends, so that I connect a normal SATA HDD on the ...
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WD 14TB EasyStore doesn't spin up both inside the enclosure and outside of enclosure
I have a WD 14TB Easystore which stopped spinning up in it's enclosure for no apparent reason. Disk Management would show it but give "fatal error" when trying to assign a letter.
I removed ...
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What cable I need for a Western Digital hard drive?
I broke one of my cables from the Hard Drive, but I don’t know what type of cable to buy. The broken cable on one side has the initials “ATA” and the other end is ICT, and I don’t know where to buy it ...
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A single HDD stops working in USB 2 enclosure
I have a WD hard drive that simply refuses to be read when put in a WD enclosure for SATA to USB 2. The drive shows up in macOS, Ubuntu and Windows, but appears uninitialized/unpartitioned.
Here are ...
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USB 3 to SATA adapter: ASM1153 vs ASM225 performance?
So I just got two 16TB Seagate Exos drives that I need to attach to my computer via USB. I have a couple of old Seagate Expansion enclosures from shucked 6TB drives - I tried them and they worked fine....
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Hard drive not spinning properly in external USB case
I have two disks that I'd like to use inside a cheap USB 2.0 case. I can use the first one just fine, when I plug it the hard start spinning nicely and the disk eventually shows up on my computer. ...
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How do I use a cd reader from old laptop (taken out) without buying an enclosure?
I took disc drive out of old laptop and it has the sata port in laptop, can I just convert the sata cord into a sata to usb cord and hook it up as an external drive? I live in BFE so I dont want to ...
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3.5" HDD spinning up via usb adapter but not via sata
I have a 14TB WD Elements external HDD. It's about 1 year old. Then I opened the case to use it as an internal HDD.
If I use the USB adapter from the case everything works fine (The adapter is a small ...
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