Weird issue with hard drive
Posted: Sat May 01, 2021 9:55 pm
So a while back I bought a new WD Red NAS 12TB drive for my NAS to hold my Plex library. Since day one I've been having issues with Windows 7 losing the drive. If I go into Disk Management and rescan disks, it always comes back. Though after a day, week or sometimes a couple weeks the drive will disappear again.
When it first started doing this (the day I bought the drive) it did it every single day. So I replaced the SATA data cable with a new one. Problem, I thought, fixed itself but now it still happens, though not as often. Possible I could have had two bad SATA cables?
The system is an X99 based motherboard with a E5-4620v3 Xeon 10c/20t CPU and 48GB RAM running Windows 7 Professional. It's also got two 280X GPUs in the system that mostly run Milkyway@Home. No issues with anything else. Just that one drive. It replaced a 1TB drive that was in the system prior and I had no iusses with that drive (using the same power cable, data cable and sata port)
I have even went as far as to just switch the data cable with another drive, but the problem follows the 12TB drive.
I have 6x 3TB drives, 1x 8TB drive, 1x 12TB drive and a 500GB SSD (boot/os) in the system. No other drive experiences this issue.
Any ideas on what could be causing this issue?
Is their a a command line I could setup in a script to periodically rescan disks? While this isn't a real fix, it would solve the issue of it going away if I rescan the disks every hour on a script. lol
When it first started doing this (the day I bought the drive) it did it every single day. So I replaced the SATA data cable with a new one. Problem, I thought, fixed itself but now it still happens, though not as often. Possible I could have had two bad SATA cables?
The system is an X99 based motherboard with a E5-4620v3 Xeon 10c/20t CPU and 48GB RAM running Windows 7 Professional. It's also got two 280X GPUs in the system that mostly run Milkyway@Home. No issues with anything else. Just that one drive. It replaced a 1TB drive that was in the system prior and I had no iusses with that drive (using the same power cable, data cable and sata port)
I have even went as far as to just switch the data cable with another drive, but the problem follows the 12TB drive.
I have 6x 3TB drives, 1x 8TB drive, 1x 12TB drive and a 500GB SSD (boot/os) in the system. No other drive experiences this issue.
Any ideas on what could be causing this issue?
Is their a a command line I could setup in a script to periodically rescan disks? While this isn't a real fix, it would solve the issue of it going away if I rescan the disks every hour on a script. lol