Questions tagged [sata]
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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hard drive not visible on windows install
I have an old HP 4-1162sf laptop. When I try to install Windows 8.1, the SATA drive is not visible. I tried to install the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver, it is detected as "Intel Mobile ...
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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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Hard Drives Spin up via SATA but Don't Show up in Disk Management
I got a DELL Inspiron 3910 2 months ago and even since I got it, my hard drives spin up when connected to the internal SATA connectors, but do not show up in the disk management console (and therefore ...
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Are my HD failures caused by a SATA port issue or is the hard drive just failing?
I'm currently trying to figure out whether a new HD that I purchased a few weeks back is faulty or if it's a problem with the SATA port (if that's even possible).
Issue started on bootup, BIOS screen ...
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Understanding M.2 protocols
(Some things I say in this question are false. Don't forget to read the accepted answer.)
First I want to say that there is no SATA software protocol for data transmission. SATA CD drives, SATA HDDs ...
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HDD showing up in Windows via USB, but not via SATA
Possible sector size issue? Leftover QNAP/EXT4 format weirdness?
I have been migrating drives from a QNAP NAS to a new Windows 11 Pro based server. The two drives giving me problems are the 10TB ...
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Can an M.2 to USB adapter support M type but not B+M type?
It seems to me that the B type SSD supports only SATA and the M type SSD only supports PCIe, and B+M SSD supports both SATA and PCIe. Now, there is an M.2 to USB adapter that says that it only ...
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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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Can this laptop support an SSD hard drive upgrade?
I have in my hands an old Samsung NP300E7A-S01IT laptop that needs a hard drive upgrade since it became desperately slow with age.
What I want to do is upgrade its 10 years old SATA HDD into a SATA ...
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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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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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Booting Ubuntu from Sata USB not working. Will it work if installed in laptop?
I have a 2016 ASUS X556UA laptop. It has a windows SSD drive installed. I connected a Ubuntu SSD via a SATA to USB drive. (It boots using this method on an even older laptop.)
Here is the BIOS boot ...
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Two SMART properties check programs, different results of End-to-End error
Take a look at SMART-ID value D8:
Which one of the two is correct and is the current state really critical? The RAW values are NOT different:
Crystal reads 11h = 17
Passmark reads 17 = 11h
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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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Cannot connect to Wi-Fi networks after additional SSD install
I installed a new SATA III SSD on my new laptop (GIGABYTE A5 K1 with the Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MH network adapter) and now it can't connect to any Wi-Fi network, even though it detects them. After ...
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Back USB3 ports stopped working after adding a new SSD
I've bought new Samsung 870 EVO SSD and connected it today to my PC with SATA cable coming from SSD caching port on motherboard
After that my back usb3 ports stopped working in general (no power ...
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What kind of cable do I need to connect a Toshiba MK1237GSX hard drive to another computer?
The connection on it seen in the picture seems different than the usual SATA connection and I can't find anything like it online. My old laptop won't turn on anymore and I was hoping to easily get a ...
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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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Can you help me find out if my HP Notebook motherboard supports both M.2 SATA and M.2 PCIe SSD?
I would like to purchase an SSD for my HP Notebook of the following specification board specifications
I would like to know if the motherboard supports SSD of M.2 form factor. If it does support, I ...
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Internal RD1000 devices are Dell proprietary?
I recently purchased two Dell RD1000 devices, one internal and one external. The external RD1000 connects via USB to the computer without problems, however the internal RD1000 via SATA is not ...
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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 to read SMART stats of hard drives connected via Silicon Image Raid controller on Windows 10?
I am using a PCI card in my Windows 10 (Enterprise) pc, which is correctly listed under Windows device management as "Silicon Image Sil 3114 SoftRaid 5 Controller". No RAID is enabled on the ...
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M2-to-SATA Adapter from a Lenovo Laptop is not compatible with standard SATA connectors [duplicate]
I have a Lenovo T470p which initially had a 500GB M2-into-SATA-adapter 2.5" SSD.
I bought a bigger normal SATA SSD and I mounted it into the laptop, all worked ok.
I was planning to re-use the ...
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