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Having troubles with 8Tb Seagate drives
I went and bought 2 8Tb drives as one 3Tb and one 4Tb had died and I thought I would "bite the bullet".
I have an Asus Z87 motherboard on a system about a year old(?). I also have an SI-PEX40071 8 port SATA 3 PCIe card and a fully updated Windows 10
I tried the first drive with 3 different ports and 2 different cables, it wasn't visible in Disk Management and it got HOT (much hotter than any drive I've felt before). I suspect that is a dud
So I moved on to the second drive. On switch on the system dropped into the BIOS so I exited without changing anything and it booted up.
I loaded Disk Management (DM from now on) :) and it asked me to choose MBR or GPT. I chose GPT. I then started a "Quick Format" expecting it to finish fairly quickly but it kept the hourglass on for a while then I noticed it was "Not responding". Left it for a while longer then "End Task" in Task Manager.
Changed ports and left it for another little while and then kicked off DM again.
DM just sits there with "Connecting to Virtual Disk Service". I exited it and re-activated a couple of times but it never gets past the "Connecting...." message.
This drive is barely warm so that is different :)
I would really appreciate any help or advice as to how I can proceed to get DM working and formatting this drive.
I am taking both drives to try on a friend's system later today and I will get back with an update. He has a later Asus motherboard.
I have 2 SSDs (240Gb each) and a few 3Tb and 4Tb drives. I also have 2 RAID mirrors so wouldn't want to play with Intel SATA ports for fear of upsetting them
I have searched the forum for info on 8Tb drives but they appeared to be pre release of 8Tb drives.
Out of desperation I disconnected the cable but DM still just displays the "Connecting..." message
Any guidance or help would be appreciated
Quick Update.... After a few minutes there was a "chime" so I loaded DM again. This time it came up. I plugged the cable back in and now it shows....
Rescanning Disks
Disk rescan in progress, please wait
And this has stayed on the screen for 20 minutes
The message went when I disconnected the cable again
Last edited by louwin; 14 Nov 2015 at 21:12.