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SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) is one of the most common bus interfaces for connecting mass storage devices to a computer system.

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Can the youyeetooX1 bios, support any M.2 to SATA3.0 conversion card?

Obviously, using a M.2 to SATA3.0 conversion card (JMB585 or ASM1166 based) would allow to build a NAS from a youyeetoo X1 motherboard. Did any one manage to do that and would you know if it might be ...
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Switched SATA Hard Drive, Same Brand and Size, Now Showing As Wrong Drive/Blank

I had a Seagate 16TB hard drive connected to a SATA port on my Windows 10 computer. I will call this Drive A. I wanted to put in a different Seagate 16TB hard drive, Drive B, same brand, model size, ...
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Old Sata / Sas Controller on Ubuntu 22.04.2

I have recently bought a new motherboard (ASUS ROG Strix B650E-F GAMING WIFI + AMD Ryzen 9 7900 CPU) and moved over an old SATA controller from an old rig (Iocrest si-pex40097). It will work no ...
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How to DIY split SATA to two USB 2 ports?

Any portable device (such as USB or SATA etc.) must be available to do two things: Must feed its circuit with Power, either from the source port (eg. USB) or from any external power source (eg....
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Motherboard Dying? AHCI Drive Init and boot loop intermittent failure

My computer is now intermittently failing to boot up. For the last couple of days, when I turn it on it hangs on "AHCI Drive Init...", and when powered off and on again, it booted up fine. Today, it ...
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Can I remove a hard disk from the boot menu?

I have two hard disks installed in my PC. When I boot up my PC and press F8 to reach the boot menu, then I am faced with three options: 1) CDROM:PM-TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-322 2) SATA:PS-ST31000524AS 3) ...
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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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Adding a SATA 6 Gbit/s PCI Express controller card?

If I add a SATA 6 Gbit/s PCI Express card to my motherboard, will I get similar speed to native SATA ports built into the motherboard? I ask because I have a SATA 6 Gbit/s SSD and my motherboard ...
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Signature collision in Windows 11, why?

I'm running into a problem in Windows 11 I can't figure out, maybe someone has ideas... I have a hard drive connected to my motherboard in a hot swap SATA rack called "Project 20". This is ...
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Is it safe to connect 1 component to a PSU?

I'm working on a project in which I took an old DVD drive out of an old computer, and I was planning on using the PSU of the old PC to supply power to the DVD drive. I did some searching and read that ...
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SATA Devices not showing up when in UEFI mode

I'm trying to install Windows and the bios should be set to UEFI mode. The problem is that all SATA devices aren't showing up (shows as if there aren't any) so I can't boot from the installation CD (...
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Ubuntu doesn't see my SATA SSD

I have an Acer A317 laptop and a SATA Samsung EVO SSD. UEFI sees the SATA SSD. Only have UEFI legacy isn't an option. Secure boot is turned off... Tried setting a admin/bios password to "unlock&...
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Changed from AHCI to RAID and now Windows won't boot

I've got 2 SSDs, one for Windows and one for Linux Mint. I have another 4 HDDs I turned into a RAID 0 array via my BIOS. Mobo is ASUS TUF X570. I had the 4 HDDs in a Microsoft storage pool but started ...
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Can i use a SAS drive on my backplane?

I have a Lian Li PC-011 Dynamic XL case. It comes with 4 hot pluggable HDD slots that are accessible from the back. I know they work for SATA drives, as i have 1 4TB drive plugged into it right now ...
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Windows Thinks Internal Hard Drive Is Removable

I have an SSD and a HDD on Windows 10 Home prebuilt desktop PC. Windows is on the Samsung SSD. My internal Toshiba HDD shows up as removable: I am trying to make this no longer be the case, without ...
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What does it mean if SMART test reports Unknown_Attribute FAILING_NOW?

I have a hard drive (HUH721010ALE601) which is reporting a failing SMART test, but I'm having a hard time interpreting what it means. The failure looks to be with attribute 45, which is labelled "...
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Python APP OS error: failure reading sector 0x10e6c8 from hd0

This is a Verifone Ruby2 POS. I have an Ubuntu boot flashdrive and another Ruby2 (main register). My question is can I repair/recover the hd0 (which is 2GB solid-state SATA Flash)? Or, copy Python App ...
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Intel RAID setup blocking PC from booting

I had an external drive fail, (described here How to save data from an external disk that died) Following the advice from the comments I dismantled the case, extracted the hard drive, took off the USB/...
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Can't access my data on old HDD, the USB adapter shows only Windows and program files [closed]

I have an old 2.5 ATA/IDE HDD, since my PC had problems with the motherboard I bought a ATA/IDE USB adapter. It does connect to the PC from the adapter, but I can only access the Windows installation ...
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How to connect a SATA III HDD to an M.2 SSD PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 slot

My laptop has two M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4 slots, but I've only got an HDD with a SATA III connector. Question(s): How do I connect the two? Does a cable exist which connects an PCIe slot to a Sata III disk? ...
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HDD Disappears after sleep mode

I recently purchased a HDD and it works fine except if I go into sleep mode. Every time my computers comes out of sleep mode the HDD disappears completely. I have literally tried EVERYTHING to fix ...
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“failed command: WRITE FPDMA QUEUED” with HDD plugged to ASM1062 (PCI-E SATA expansion card)

Setup I refurbished an ASRock QC5000M motherboard for a home server, by installing Debian 12 on it with the intent to set up a RAID 1 on 2 hard drives. This motherboard only has 2 SATA ports, so I ...
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Why is my SATA drive running at 728 megabytes per second if the real-world limit is 600 megabytes per second?

According to this answer it should not be performing like this but here it is doing exactly that!
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What is the actual speed of SATA 3?

Google says it is running at 6Gb/s. The throughput is at 600MB/s. 600MB/s equals 4.8Gb/s. Does this mean that the bandwidth is 6Gb/s but the actual throughput is 4.8Gb/s ?
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What can cause a HDD to unmount itself?

I have an i7-8700K PC that I want to turn into a PLEX media server (with more plans down the line). It has a 512 GB SSD for OS stuff, an 8 TB HDD for game stuff, and in April of 2023 I installed a 14 ...
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Can I connect a SATA3 SSD to an ASATA port?

Due to the structure of the computer case, I can't connect the hard drive and SSD to the SATA3 ports. I connected them to ASATA. How this will affect the processor and the system as a whole, or there ...
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Can I power 3.5" SATA disk via a double USB adapter?

I want to recover data from a Samsung HD501LJ 3.5" SATA disk. https://www.hdsentinel.com/storageinfo_details.php?lang=en&model=SAMSUNG%20HD501LJ I have no more working desktop to connect it to. ...
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Can I boot Windows 10 installed on a SATA SSD/HDD from USB3 via SATA to USB adapter?

First of all I'm not trying to clone. I just have a laptop with a dead internal SATA port. The drive is still alive and I want to boot via a USB3 adapter. It gets part way through the boot when it ...
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Robocopy: ERROR 87 (0x00000057) Time-Stamping Destination Directory

I'm using robocopy to copy files from a CD drive to a SATA drive in USB-to-SATA enclosure. This is the command that I'm using: FOR /F "tokens=6" %%a IN ('vol e:') DO SET var=%%a md k:\%var% ...
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SSD not showing up while installing Linux

[SOLVED, See my answer] In my Laptop, there are two Hard Drives. One is SSD and Another one is HDD. My windows in installed in SSD from the beginning and working fine. I am trying to install Linux on ...
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Dell Inspiron 11 3162 windows 7 installation issues

I have the Dell Inspiron 3162 laptop (Pentium N3710 Quad-Core + 128GB SSD). Basically, I can't find the SATA drivers needed for the laptop to recognise my SSD when booting from a windows 7 pro usb ...
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BIOS not detecting working SATA hard drive

Some time ago my power supply died. It's a long story from then till now, but the important bit is that I ended up with a new hard drive and a new power supply. I tested to see if my original hard ...
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SSD appears to become disconnected from computer randomly each day

The SSD is a Samsung 840 EVO 120GB drive. I've been dealing with an issue for at least the past month where around once a day my computer will completely freeze. The first go around, I was pretty ...
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Motherboard HDDPWR1 connector

I need help identifying the name of a connector. I have a Gateway DX4870-UB318 computer, I opened the case and wanted to attach another hard drive, but to my surprise one existing SATA hard drive was ...
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3.5 inch HDD making clicking noise (video included) [closed]

Seeking Advice: Recovering Data from Clicking 3.5" HDD I have an approximately 10-year-old 3.5-inch SATA hard drive that I'm trying to get old personal files off of. When connected via a SATA-to-...
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Cannot set/enable HPA on SSD using hdparm (SG_IO: bad/missing data)

I am trying to set up a HPA on a new 2TB Patriot P210 SATA SSD: $ sudo hdparm -Np3600000000 --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting max visible sectors to 3600000000 (permanent) ...
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Why can't Windows Server 2008 R2 (during clean install) find ANY device drivers?

I am trying to get a fresh install of Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard (64-bit) onto a (somewhat dated) Dell PowerEdge 1800. I'm am using the bundled Adaptec CERC SATA1.5/6ch RAID controller, and have ...
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Old SSD: get application license number using SATA adapter cable

My old laptop was having issues with power connector (which eventually just stopped altogether), so I recently bought a new desktop. I have copied data from old Laptop to new desktop using a SATA ...
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How can I check whether USB3.0 UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol) mode is enabled in Linux?

I have a laptop running Ubuntu 15.04 (3.19.0-21-generic) and an external USB3.0 2.5" SATA HDD enclosure which claims that it supports UASP mode (the S2510BPU33 model by StarTech). I have no problems ...
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Disadvantages of internal SSD as external storage

Although there are some manufacturers offering external SSDs, they have the disadvantage that they can't later be used in a NAS, for example. My idea would be to use a USB-to-SATA adapter to use a ...
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How to check the health of a hard drive

My SATA drive started clicking and I was unable to access the data. This is the hard drive in question: HITACHI Deskstar T7K250 HDT722525DLA380 (0A31636) 250GB 7200 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5"...
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Trouble with new hard drive on old computer, and BIOS update

My motherboard is an Asus K8V-X. I was using a 250GB Maxtor SATA hard drive ever since I bought this computer, and the dreaded click of death finally showed up. So I bought a new 500GB Samsung SATA ...
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M.2 NVMe SSD on 10-year old computer?

I have an aging motherboard in my computer which I built in 2010. The MOBO is Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3 (rev2). It has only one PCIe slot that is revision 2 and the graphics card occupies that slot. The ...
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Trying to Clone Hard Drive to SSD Using a Third Hard Drive

I've recently purchased a Samsung 870 EVO SSD to replace the HDD inside my laptop. To clone the drive inside my laptop to the SSD, I found that I can purchase a SATA to USB cable to facilitate the ...
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SSD is acting strange in Asus K75VM laptop

I bought an Intel 530 SSD, 240GB, which supports SATA 3. The laptop is an ASUS A75VM-TY0877V, running Windows 8.1. There are not many drivers installed, as this is just a clean install (and yes, I am ...
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Old laptop won't recognize installed SSD

I encountered a problem while trying to upgrade an old (10+ years) Samsung NP300E7A-S01IT laptop's HDD into a newer SSD. I bought the SSD (Samsung 870 EVO 1TB 2,5" SATA III SSD MZ-77E1T0B/EU) and ...
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Hybrid drive in ASUS K551LN laptop - only AHCI mode in SATA Mode Selection in BIOS

I recently bought ASUS K551LN laptop with hybrid drive in it (didn't ask for it, it just happened that this model came with it). As SSD partition is only 24GB which is not enough to install OS onto it ...
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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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SATA errors for SSD with new mainboard, works fine with old one

My $old system works perfectly fine. Then I upgraded the mainboard+CPU to $new and suddenly I can no longer boot from my SSD. The GRUB bootloader stops sometimes at "GRUB", "GRUB ...
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How can I tell which SATA Revision my Laptop Motherboard Supports?

I am planning on installing an SSD in my Acer Aspire E5-511 C7X7 (https://www.acer.com/ac/en/GB/content/model/NX.MPKEK.022) by replacing the 9.5mm optical drive with a hard drive caddy but I am unsure ...

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