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re: SATA HDD Issues - Seagate Barracuda 2 TB

Posted on 12/4/16 at 8:51 pm to
Posted by Spock's Eyebrow
Member since May 2012
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Posted on 12/4/16 at 8:51 pm to
I suppose there could be incompatibilities, but if there were, I think your drives would have died right away instead of working for some time. I'd actually be rather shocked (pun intended) if the PSU ends were identical but wired differently; that said, I'd trust, but verify. Since Fry's apparently tried your cable on their PSU, my money is on the cable going bad.

Posted by Swoopin
Member since Jun 2011
22031 posts
Posted on 12/4/16 at 9:57 pm to
I think the issue is that I had 1 compatible cable and 1 Corsair cable... and to this point, I had been lucky in that all of my SSD's were on thecompatible one. I plugged in bad Corsair cable to install my old 2 TB and thought hte drive was dead so left things where they were.

Ordered a 4 TB drive to replace 2 TB, and decided to unhook all of my SSD's (power and data) so that I could be nice, neat and tidy installing everything.

Tested them all on the bad cable and killed everything. One for some reason surivved.

Expensive lesson learned: Only use the power cables that come with your PSU. Same pins didn't mean shite in this situation. At very least, stay within your PSU's manufacturer for new cables.

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