Does someone have over 8 SATA ports in use over a long time? Are they SATA issues, lossing disks at boot?I have this,dont know if it is only my or all
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I had 10 HDDs connected and every time it boots one or two drives were missing, I RMA'd it and tried another one, same exact issue. This board is having serious SATA issues. Got rid of it and went with different board.
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The Number of Drive I have:: 2-2TB, 1-1Tb (C:) 1-3Tb. 1-1.5Tb, 1-32Gb CExpress Cache) SSD, 1-80Gb SSD, 1-250Gb, 1-DVD Unit, 1-eM2 256Gb (D:) on the Mother Board Z97-Deluxe_intel i7-4770K w/32GB Ram Hard-Drives are Seagates
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2 sata 3 ports are facing up, the other 4 sata 3 ports are right next to those two they are just facing towards the front. That is becoming more common.
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I just plugged 1ssd and one sata drive. I think two ports are hight speed but I dont remenber. whats the plan with that huge setup?
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Thanks for the info, just out of interest how fast does your laptop boot windows 7 with the ssd going at SATA II?
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I never found Sale CA let in any case. They are included with motherboards - usually four of them. Sometimes included with device as SSDs or hard disks. Check the SATA version of the cables to support latest SATA start dard
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Try returning it? I was very unhappy with my unit. The SATA connection was very loose and it was impossible to get a reliable connection.
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Thanks for your information. I did also find out that there's a sata port intended for an optical drive. If so, then I can mount the SSD in that bay and still have all 4 bays for data. Now - does anybody know if the BIOS can handle 3TB drives without repartitioning?
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The device uses a standard SATA port. I personally don't really like the device and am planning on getting a better more costly version. It worked for me once...and not a couple of other times when i tried to clone with it.
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Send it back, it's defective. They shipped out a lot of defective ones... esp. around December for the holidays when they were on sale. I suspect while they were on sale & they were selling lots of them, they put inferior drives in them to increase their profit margin.
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Thanks for the answers. One more question, did any of you did a new install? based on the answers it seems that most or all of you just replace an old/broken board with this one. I am actually looking to do a new installation.
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I'm not at the unit now (will look when I get home but I know I have 6 sata hard drives on and I had to use at least one, possibly 2 splitters so at most 5 possibly 4
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call the company....they are very helpful or email them. I own two of their drives and have been very happy
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Someone said this is a SATA backplane. It is has nothing to do with SATA, it is not a backplane an has nothing to do with drive connectors.
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Not sure I understand the question so hopefully this will help. You can add as many additional HDDs to your system as you have additional unused functional SATA ports on your motherboard and/or PCI card and space inside your PC case to install them. It's possible that some of your SATA ports may not be functional. If you're using a multi HDD external enclosure, you would need to check to see if it has HDD size/space limitations...
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I need to swap the print circuit board, since PC cannot detect this drive any more. I have tons of data on this drive that needs retrieval. So I placed another order again. Hope I will get exact model as I bought in Nov, 2010. The model I received last time is also WD20EARS-00MVWB0. Can someone report what's their model number now, if they bought it recently? Thank you. I will report mine once I get it on Monday.
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sata 3.5 inch 500-2tb per mfg just now...need to format the hard disk to a fat32 hope this helps. i got my answer to my question about the adm password. thanks for the motivation. they have a live chat which was quick and simple to use.
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All of the disk drives are combined into one logical drive. This means that you would loose the data on your existing drives.As a side note, this unit is very fast. I have had mine about a year with no problems (Windows 7 x64).