Update on WD hard drive

[Bad Aim]

So, I received my WD hard drive. When I attempted to put the drive in my computer, it would not work. Windows Device manager wasn't recognizing the drive. Bios wasn't recognizing the drive. So, out of curiosity, I put the new drive in my external hard drive enclosure.

Boom! The drive worked! I formatted the drive then attempted to put the drive in my tower. Nothing.

I do not know why my computer does not want to recognize this hard drive. But, I did pull the 4TB WD Blue out of the external and placed that in my tower. The 10TB hard drive will work very well as an external drive. I have moved everything from the Blue to the new one. Because I have all my media files backed up on 3 other hard drives, if the new one fails it is of no concern to me. I did put in an email to Amazon to see what they wanted me to do but I do not think I will be returning the HD in the near future unless it completely fails.

I do remember that I was told that the blue would work for my older games as most of them are not going to be able to take advantage of the 7200rpm. And from what I have noticed, that does seem to be true! The older games seem to work just fine with the Blue. I am not getting any noticeable lag when playing these games.

I still have the NVMe drives installed and the 2TB WD Black for newer games. My next purchase is going to be either a 2TB WD Black NVMe drive or maybe a 4000 series Nvidia card. I am leaning more in the direction of the drive as I want to keep spending down a bit. With the holidays coming up, I want to put more money into buying presents for my family and friends.

Again, thank you to all that offered advice.


I will say that I was skeptical about putting games on a WD Blue. I am glad I was wrong.

[Illusion of Progress]

I remember you having two NVMes and like three or four SATA drives? What motherboard do you have? It's not uncommon for the last two SATA posts to be disabled when the final M2 port is occupied, as they share resources and the M2 gets priority.

Though, if your hard drive that was in the enclosure before now works as a fifth internal drive, that I don't know.

In any case, glad you found a solution and kept us updated on it. Not many people do.

Edit: What model Blue is it? Older, lower capacity ones were 7,200 RPM and there's nothing that makes them incapable for games. And although they may be 5,xx0 RPM, modern Blues are a higher density and may sometimes be faster due to density advantage. I found my 4 TB (5,400 RPM) and 8 TB (5,640 RPM) Blues didn't feel much slower than my old 640 GB (7,200 RPM) ones from ages ago.

A label is a label, and a spec in a vacuum means only so much. Don't be afraid to use it for something if you find it's working out fine for you.

[Bad Aim]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Illusion of Progress:

I remember you having two NVMes and like three or four SATA drives? What motherboard do you have? It's not uncommon for the last two SATA posts to be disabled when the final M2 port is occupied, as they share resources and the M2 gets priority.

Though, if your hard drive that was in the enclosure before now works as a fifth internal drive, that I don't know.

In any case, glad you found a solution and kept us updated on it. Not many people do.

Edit: What model Blue is it? Older, lower capacity ones were 7,200 RPM and there's nothing that makes them incapable for games. And although they may be 5,xx0 RPM, modern Blues are a higher density and may sometimes be faster due to density advantage. I found my 4 TB (5,400 RPM) and 8 TB (5,640 RPM) Blues didn't feel much slower than my old 640 GB (7,200 RPM) ones from ages ago.

A label is a label, and a spec in a vacuum means only so much. Don't be afraid to use it for something if you find it's working out fine for you.

I have the Asus Z-590-E

https://rog.asus.com/us/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-z590-e-gaming-wifi-model/

I tried everything I could think of to get the new hard drive working. This included removing all of the HDD's in my tower and only having the new one installed. It was not working. Hell, I couldn't even feel the drive power up. But, once I installed it into my external case, the damn thing fired right up. Even after I got it working in the case, I attempted to put it back into the tower. It would not power up. And I know those cables work. I now have the 4TB Blue and the 2TB black HDD's installed and it seems to be doing fine.

And you were right. I didn't think you were going to be, but I am more than willing to eat humble pie and say that my older games work just fine on the WD Blue, even though the Blue is not at 7200rpm.

I still have a lot of file transfers to do to get everything onto the 10TB drive. It is going to take awhile. I did manage to empty the Blue onto the new one and empty the Green onto the new one. I still have a TON of space!

Sitting on my floor right now are the green and my two WD Black 1TB hard drives. I plan to save those for when I finally get around to building my in-home server. I am also considering buying one of the multi-hard drive cases that can act as a in-home cloud drive. While expensive, most all of them are going to be cheaper than an in-home server. But there are certain advantages to having a powerful in-home server. So it is something I am going to continue to ponder.

I want to thank you again. All of the advice you have given to me has been on the nose! You really do rock the Hardware and Operating Systems threads. And you have been right even when I was so sure I was.

Thank you.

[jason]

An SATA rev 3.3 drive needs an SATA power connector that does not supply 3.3v.

[Bad Aim]

I got my 2TB NVMe WD Black drive today. When I installed it, it would not work. My motherboard, the Asus ROG Z-590-E, has four NVMe slots. Two of them are Gen 4 slots. Two of these four slots are for Gen 4, the other two are for Gen 3 or lesser.

One of the Gen 4 slots would not work with any of my NVMe drives installed. I thought at first that maybe the drive I got was defective, but nope, it worked just fine.

After playing around in the bios for a time, I found out that slot 2, one of the Gen 4 slots, was set-up by default to accept the Intel Optane drive. After I disabled that, slot two worked just fine.

Why would Asus set up slot two of the NVMe slots specifically for the Optane? It does not make sense. It would make more sense if the slot was set for a normal drive by default.