I have a brand new Western Digital 2TB Green HDD (EARX) which, when I first connected to the motherboard, formatted quickly and seemed to be working fine. The first thing I did was transfer a large file from one of of my other internal hard drives to this new one. All went well for about 1 minute but then the speed of the transfer slowed from about 70MB/s to around 12MB/s and then eventually stopped transferring altogether. The transfer window just stayed there. I cancelled the transfer (which surprisingly worked, I thought that windows would just have a wobbly at this) and then tried transferring a 4mb .jpg which worked fine. So i tried a folder with about 5gb of images and the same thing happened as before. The transfer slowed right down and eventually stopped.
This is the second consecutive drive I've bought which has done this. The first one I returned to the supplier who said they found nothing wrong with the drive in their tests.
I also ran the same tests; WD software tests, Crystal Mark and Windows Disk Check, and all came back with no errors apart from Crystal Mark which failed to start (gave me a write error). Which was my reason for returning the drive as i assumed it was faulty.
Now this new drive is following the same pattern as the previous one.
I currently have a total of 11 drives (Was 12 before one of them failed and I replaced it with the first faulty WD drive) of various sizes, but most of them are WD 2TB Green drives. I've never had this problem before I try and return this drive I wondered if there was anything else I could do (tests or otherwise) to try and identify a problem?
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Ah! before I was about to press the submit button I thought I'd try something else. Basically my hard drive set up is as follows:
Crosshair IV Formula =
1x SSD
1x 300gb WD
4x 2tb WD
PCI SATA X4 CARD =
2x 250gb WD
1x 640gb WD
1x 2tb WD
PCIE SATA X2 CARD =
2x 2tb WD
Total = 12 drives
Now the original HDD that failed was one of the 2TB WD drives connected directly to the motherboard. So far, both new drives (the original purchase and the second replacement) had problems when connected directly to the motherboard (I ran the tests i mentioned above while all the other 11 drives were connected AND again when they were disconnected, apart from the SSD, and there was no change, they failed to write in Crystal Disk).
But just now, I swapped the newest replacement with one of the drives connected to the PCIE card and it worked! So did the HDD which was now connected to the motherboard in place of the replacement drive.
So my question now is, why?
Why would a new hard drive not work correctly when connected directly to the motherboard but would work when connected through a PCIE SATA card?
If you've managed to read all the way through this, many thanks. And if you've got any input on this I would be eternally grateful.
This is the second consecutive drive I've bought which has done this. The first one I returned to the supplier who said they found nothing wrong with the drive in their tests.
I also ran the same tests; WD software tests, Crystal Mark and Windows Disk Check, and all came back with no errors apart from Crystal Mark which failed to start (gave me a write error). Which was my reason for returning the drive as i assumed it was faulty.
Now this new drive is following the same pattern as the previous one.
I currently have a total of 11 drives (Was 12 before one of them failed and I replaced it with the first faulty WD drive) of various sizes, but most of them are WD 2TB Green drives. I've never had this problem before I try and return this drive I wondered if there was anything else I could do (tests or otherwise) to try and identify a problem?
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Ah! before I was about to press the submit button I thought I'd try something else. Basically my hard drive set up is as follows:
Crosshair IV Formula =
1x SSD
1x 300gb WD
4x 2tb WD
PCI SATA X4 CARD =
2x 250gb WD
1x 640gb WD
1x 2tb WD
PCIE SATA X2 CARD =
2x 2tb WD
Total = 12 drives
Now the original HDD that failed was one of the 2TB WD drives connected directly to the motherboard. So far, both new drives (the original purchase and the second replacement) had problems when connected directly to the motherboard (I ran the tests i mentioned above while all the other 11 drives were connected AND again when they were disconnected, apart from the SSD, and there was no change, they failed to write in Crystal Disk).
But just now, I swapped the newest replacement with one of the drives connected to the PCIE card and it worked! So did the HDD which was now connected to the motherboard in place of the replacement drive.
So my question now is, why?
Why would a new hard drive not work correctly when connected directly to the motherboard but would work when connected through a PCIE SATA card?
If you've managed to read all the way through this, many thanks. And if you've got any input on this I would be eternally grateful.