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

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 possible, ...
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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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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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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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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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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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connect and detect sata ssd after hirens boot

i have an ssd that has stoped working properly and want to recover data from it . if i connect it before booting , computer hang on start . but if i start the computer (windows 10) without it , then ...
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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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“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 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 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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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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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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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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Which SATA revision does device support?

How to tell which SATA revision is supported by a device (either motherboard or SSD drive) within Linux or Windows or any other way? Samsung PM893/PM897 SSD specification explicitly says SATA 3.3 ...
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SATA/SSD 2.5'' to USB laptop connection dont show up

I have several 2.5'' SATA/SSD disks that I want to read in a laptop. I bought a common SATA/SSD to USB 3.0 adapter but most don't show up and they are silent (no spinning) I strongly suspect the ...
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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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Looking for a way to swap several HDD's quickly

I'm looking for a way to go through an absolute boat load of HDD's quickly, without having to open my PC and swap out drives. They are all 3.5" SATA drives that have data on that i may or may not ...
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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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Best option to interface laptop with blu-ray disk rewriter

I have a blu-ray disk rewriter (this model), which I would like to gift to someone, who owns a laptop, but not a desktop computer, and isn't very tech-comfortable. Ideally, they would plug it into a ...
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SSD sata 2.5 inch drive - how to identify fault

I have a SATA 2.5 inch Samsung 1TB SSD drive (870QVO). I am have put the computer innards into a new case and I found that in the new case the computer would not start with the drive attached. Fans ...
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SMART: UltraDMA selected jumps back and forth between 5 and 6

Every time I am viewing SMART-Data of my SATA SSD (Samsung 870 EVO 2TB) with Disk Checkup software I see different value of "UltraDMA selected" parameter. It is times 5 times 6. May be it ...
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EVGA GT1300 doesn't power 4TB Dell SAS drives from its SATA connectors, but does when connected to Molex; Why?

I've been having problems with enrolling some SAS hard drives (on a ZFS ZOL system of mine). I had an EVGA 600w power supply. I thought maybe it was that or cables. I replaced the cables, still had ...
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My computer recognizes the DVD-ROM drive in windows 10 but never reads discs

I have a Gigabyte H510M H motherboard with 4 SATA ports, which all of them either connected to a HDD or SSD drive. I decided to check my discs from 2012 and I realized since I upgraded my PC less than ...
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Will a mini pci-e sata card work on a laptop?

Recently I converted an old HP ProBook 4440s laptop that had no use for years into a mini nas for me. I was wondering how much can I do with this laptop so I wanna give it 16gb of ram and more storage ...
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SATA Driver for Sony VAIO VGN-FZ240E

I'm trying to install Windows XP on a Sony VAIO VGN-FZ240E laptop so I can play some old PC games, but I cannot proceed because I am missing SATA drivers. Sadly, it appears Sony is no longer hosting ...
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Centos 4.8 not booting after replacement disk controller

I have a quite old Centos 4.8 backup. Root partition is on LVM. (/dev/mapper/centos-root). This backup (tar.gz archive) works fine if i restore it in Vmware cluster with SCSI controller. But now i ...
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internal SATA HDD only seen by Debian after reboot

I am using an old HP Elitedesk 800 G3 with Intel i5-6500 as a headless Debian server with some services using docker compose. I bought a Toshiba Enterprise Capacity 18 TB HDD (MG09ACA18TE) to use as ...
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Host system dead. How do I read data stored on a RAID 1 drive/pair?

I have looked for similar questions and I probably don't know the proper phrases to find an equivalent question if it exists here on SU. I have seen a couple questions from 6-plus years back that ...
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SATA SSD Latency using ioping

SATA SSDs are expected to have latency in the range of a few hundred microseconds, but when I measure it using ioping, the latency is around 2ms. Is there any reason for such high latency in SATA SSDs?...
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SATA Card Blocks On-Board RAID Controller

I have a PCI-Express two-port SATA card (from SSU). It is model SU-SATA3-T2. I'm installing it in a Dell Optiplex 990. The Dell motherboard part number is 06D7TR. The card seems to work, but with one ...
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Linux, Hard drive : how to avoid read failures from USB adapter after first error

I regularly try to save data from failing hard drives. I use a sata USB adapter, and ddrescue. The issue is that when it encounter a bad sector, it result in a read error, and all next read will also ...
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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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Do ATA security commands include one for write protection?

ATA drives include a security command set that can be disabled until the next power cycle by a "security freeze" command. Does this security command set include one that enables write ...
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SATA 3.0 - PC uses lesser speed

I'm running Arch Linux (Kernel: 6.2.13-arch1-1) on my home server and I have a few hard drives connected. This is an image of my chipset for reference: https://www.pronotebook.cz/fotky48726/fotos/...
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Internal SATA-HDD Doesn't Spin Up With Data Cable Connected

What's happening here is beyond me and what I keep finding on the internet is talks about the PSU, but I doubt that it is my issue here. Then again I'm not a hardware person and the things I read may ...
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Are there different kinds of SATA power connectors, and if so, what terminology do I need to distinguish them?

I have two power cables that I'm trying to use to hook up multiple hard drives in an Unraid system. Both look superficially like this: ...with a 6-pin connector like this that goes into the power ...
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Two recent and (probably) working WD RED disks not detected by BIOS

I used to have a working NAS with the following four disks, all Western Digital Red : 2 4TB disks from 2013 1 4TB disk from 2019 1 4TB disk from 2021 The NAS was fully functional, and all disks ...
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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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Why am I only getting a 4MB/s read and write speed from my SSD?

My computer has only one storage drive and that is a 256gb SSD (SATA) which I've made partitions on. I tested my max drive speed and it is about 350MB/S (read and write). Though, when I copied a stack ...
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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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HDDs disconnecting with a loud beep - Faulty motherboard?

I'll make this as short as possible. Setup: Mobo: Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX CPU: Ryzen 7 5700x GPU: EVGA RTX 3060 PSU: Corsair SF750 Platinum Storage: Crucial MX500 250Gb Storage: Samsung 970 ...
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Upgrading Win 8 to Win 10 not possible

The screenshot explains everything: A couple of days ago received a machine with Ryzen 1700 cpu and ASUS X370-Pro motherboard with enabled RAID1 on first 2 SATA ports (in fact on all ports, ask ASUS ...
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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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