Sata problems with my new motherboard please help

Helen Barber

Helen Barber

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I own a Asus tuf gaming x570 plus motherboard

I haven't changed any settings in the bios so running everything at default.

I have 8x Sata hard drives connected using stablebit drivepool and a 1TB M2 card

All hard drives seem fine, but randomly every day or so, one of my hard drives, will say "disconnected" via drivepool. Restarting pc doesn't fix it and usually after a overnight shutdown the drive will return as normal - lots of air cooling on drives and don't go over 30c

I'm wondering if I'm overloading the Sata controller maybe?, Or I need to change some bios settings?

I was debating buying a 8 port pci-e sata card to take some, or all the loud off the motherboard.

Can you think of anything I can test or do?

It's not a faulty drive, as it's happened with 3 different drives over the last 2 weeks

Just abit lost!

:)
 
Seems like a strange problem, I personally use an LSI HBA (9207-8i) card as I find them more stable than the onboard controller, this and haven't had any problems.

As you mention "my new motherboard", did it all work with your last motherboard? Isolating what's changed is the first step.
 
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Do you have a good power supply?
Are you using splitters and connecting to many hard drives on the same cable?
Spinup current is quite high on hard drives
Had a seasonic 450w gold PSU struggle with 8 drives
 
Helen Barber said:
I think those problems are with high end graphic cards using 4.0... I'm only on a 1070 ti
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Yes but some of the fixes might help you and no harming looking/posting on the AMD community about your problem
  1. Update to the latest BIOS with newest AGESA available for your motherboard
  2. Install the latest AMD chipset drivers (available here)
 
Would you mind posting all of the other components in your PC as it is theoretically possible that your PSU just can't produce sufficient power and in those events something has to give - especially when the system gets fully loaded. That means:
* Power Supply
* Graphics Card
* Processor
* Drives (Are all 8 drives mechanical HD's?)
* Capture cards
* Sound Cards
* Case
* RGB or other additional lighting
* Anything else that depends upon the main power supply for power.
 
Corsair 860w 6 weeks old, brand new. Graphics card disabled as I only use remote desktop at the minute, no resets or issues. Can't be drawing more than 80w

I would put my life on it's not the PSU :)

All my bios and chipset is well out of date
 
If problem persists
Either replace the motherboard
Or get a Host Bus Adapter
LSI cards are found second hand for not a lot of money
The key for them is to get one that is running IT P20 firmware
This will give you 8 sata ports
 
Helen Barber said:
Corsair 860w 6 weeks old, brand new. Graphics card disabled as I only use remote desktop at the minute, no resets or issues. Can't be drawing more than 80w

I would put my life on it's not the PSU :)

All my bios and chipset is well out of date
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Even new parts can be faulty... Would be a dream if that was not the case.

Are you using any kind of adapters, splitters, anything of the sort?

As with all fault testing in pcs you need to go back to basics. Start off with minium amount of kit plugged in (even unplug USB sticks or webcams - everything), attach one hdd at a time and see when you start getting issues.
 
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