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Tagged with power-supply hard-drive
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Can a dying power supply make a file-write fail in this way?
Lately my research code has been crashing during (or possibly milliseconds after) GPU-intensive draw operations, causing instant system restarts. As a test, I had my code save a file right after each ...
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How to get a second PSU to power only hard drives if the CPU and motherboard connectors are not used?
I would like to add more disks than my main PSU can handle, so I plugged them on another PSU (Corsair VS450) but it does not power them as CPU and motherboard connectors are not used.
How can I force ...
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Is it safe to leave a HDD powered up while pc is off?
I am currently running 2 PCs from one power supply. As it is, both PCs come on with the power button, but I'd like to be able to unplug the secondary PC when I'm not using it because the fan noise is ...
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Isolate failure to PSU\Motherboard\Processor
I have a 2.5 year old custom built PC which intermittently stopped booting a few weeks ago and has now completely stopped booting. The symptom remains the same, the fans and LED's spin up, I can hear ...
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Can I power my 3,5 HDD Enclosure with laptop power supply? [closed]
As stated in the title, I've got myself a nice little 3,5" HDD enclosure like this, but as of late I've lost power supply that was shipped along with it.
Can I use my 16V 3,5A laptop power supply (...
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Desktop Internal Drive Disconnecting
After installing a secondary hard drive, it randomly disconnects under heavy read/write stress. By this i mean, the drive would disappear (no longer visible on Windows Explorer or Disk Management). ...
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What are the standard system unit case screw use?
I am planning to build a system unit using second-hand parts.
But these second-hand parts don't come with screws so I am thinking of buying a set but there are so many to choose from.
What is the ...
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5V/12V load balance of 3.5'' HDD?
I have a home-built NAS where I currently have ten 3.5'' SATA HDDs. The PSU I use there is rated for 140W on 5V rail and 480W on 12V rail. Since the 3.5'' HDDs use both 12V and 5V voltages, I would ...
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PC Spins and Mounts 2.5" drives but not 3.5" drives
Using SATA connectors from the motherboard and PSU I cannot get my PC to spin up a 3.5" desktop drive.
Specs:
MOBO: ASRock ab350
PSU: 600W
GFX: 1060 Mini
I've checked for firmware updates for my ...
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PC won't work if new SSD is inserted
[Please pardon my English. I might not know the proper names of some HW things in English, sorry]
Today I got a new SSD! Yay! Twice as big as my old, 120gb SSD...
Well I wish I had my 240gb of space ...
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Can I put a second hard drive in a computer with 320w psu?
I don't know if anyone can help; me or not. But here goes:
I have a 2 TB hard drive (I think it's a Western Digital, and I'd like to add another hard drive, either traditional HDD or SSD, whichever ...
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Changing SATA cables, essentially changing computers without cutting off power to a drive
I was reading about SEDs, I came across a way of getting the data from an SED which is connected to an already running system, by plugging it into another computer without cutting the power supply to ...
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Hard drives have different amperages
I got a IDE to USB adapter so I could see what's on these old hard drives. The adapter takes the form of a USB adapter for the data, and a wall-to-powerbrick-to-molex adapter for the power. The ...
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Can a PSU outage cause a Mechanical Start Failure on a S.M.A.R.T. drive?
Recently, my PSU crunched out on me and I had to replace it. The drive in question was running at the time, and during an attempt at start up afterwards (during which the PSU did not output enough ...
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I've had FIVE hard drives die in the past few days. Is it a power surge? Could anything else cause this, and can I trust my other components?
So I had 3 mechanical HDD's (all different), and 2 SSD's (one old, one new-ish)
Timeline:
2015 - 2 weeks ago - Homebuilt system works fine.
8-10 days ago - Multiple power outages during last few ...
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