Multiple HDD on Motherboard - Error

[LupoLover]

Hi all

Strange one and dont know where to put it so happy for a MOD to move if they think of a more appropriate place.

Last night I decided with the HDD I have lying around to just connect them via SATA ports to my pc, rather then caddying them one at a time when I need the data.

So I connected up my other 3 HDD (SATA 2, 3.5" normal drives)
So my PC now had:

Samsung SSD boot
750GB HDD
2 x 2TB HDD
1 x 1TB HDD

All these drives were fine before going into PC using the caddy.
Now they crash all the time I try to move files around on them, or even open the files on them.

Any ideas?

Im using a Asus Z87-A board with a 4770K at STOCK SPEED. Nothing else has changed. I ran AVG scan and no errors.

I have all 6 SATA 2 ports used now is that the issue? (Cant see how)

Cheers

Sheldon

 

[Nichrome]

Hi,
Did you try to test each HDD each time? Might be that single HDD is faulty and it's causing errors.
Also what SATA cables are you using for them? Are they all SATA III/II or appropriately SATAIII for Sata3 HDD/SSD and SATA II cable for Sata2 HDD? That might be affecting this.
Also how big were the files you tried to move?
Did you try to format HDDs (those you just put in) before using?
Are you able to test them in different computer?
Also try running ChkDsk from Windows for each of HDDs