HDD Constantly Disconnects/Reconnects

[Bop]

I am using a WD10EARS 1TB HDD off my board's Intel SATA controller, but every few minutes I receive a message that my HDD has been disconnected. Usually 30 seconds later I get a "reconnect" message.

I thought it may have been the hot-swap adapter, so I placed the HDD into a different hot-swap bay. With the different port and adapter I stopped receiving the message for about a week. However, the message has come back. I am very close to RMA'ing this drive.

Any further suggestions?

 

[drescherjm]

I am very close to RMA'ing this drive.

Look at the SMART to see if the drive thinks it is having problems.

CrystalDiskInfo is a good program on windows to do this.

 

[Bop]

Look at the SMART to see if the drive thinks it is having problems.

CrystalDiskInfo is a good program on windows to do this.

CrystalDiskInfo reports that the drive is "Good."

The HDD completely stopped responding on the newer hot-swap bay. Swapping it back into the old one got it working again.

 

[scaarbelly]

plug it strait in without the hot-swap and test.

 

[Bop]

plug it strait in without the hot-swap and test.

There is never a SATA cable around when I need it.

Luckily, I realized I have a different 1TB drive lying around. I'm going to copy the data over and then see if that drive randomly disconnects.

 

[ASIA911]

Try going into Device Manager and disable Write Caching on the drive.