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    HGST He10 Incompatible with Most Asus Motherboards

    Looking back into the issue of molex to sata adapters catching fire, I finally found the answer seems to come down to whether they were made in a hasty method where the plastic is molded around the wires, versus methods that properly crimp each wire. Jump to 3 minutes.
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    HGST He10 Incompatible with Most Asus Motherboards

    Quick look around Google tells me this is not an ideal long term solution. I will probably trade it out!
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    HGST He10 Incompatible with Most Asus Motherboards

    It worked! ...though someone in another chat is asking if I've ever heard the saying "Molex to SATA, lose all your data"? Ahaha.. ha... wonder if they have a point.
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    HGST He10 Incompatible with Most Asus Motherboards

    Woah! I'll let Fry's know that might not have been the best model to put out on the shelf then. Thank you for finding this info. Let me dig around, I think I have one of those converters.
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    HGST He10 Incompatible with Most Asus Motherboards

    HGST 0F27452
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    HGST He10 Incompatible with Most Asus Motherboards

    Oh man, I didn't notice it was SAS, or the price.... well I guess I'll be digging for compatibility lists if anyone even includes them on new enough controllers. To be clear, I absolutely have not purchased SAS drives.
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    HGST He10 Incompatible with Most Asus Motherboards

    Edit: dang, that's a SAS controller I was calmly explaining to HGST that they should seriously consider hosting a recommended list of controllers, in the event that I'm right about compatibility being a long shot on a variety of older boards. If Nintendo can recommend SD cards and Hard Drives...
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    HGST He10 Incompatible with Most Asus Motherboards

    It is the Sata version, and actually it's jumperless. So far I've only had the chance to try it with Asus motherboards, which to be clear I tried the 6gb/s and 3gb/s ports both. So far it's been a Vantec dock that actually managed to pull it up under Disk Management. HGST was surprisingly...
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    HGST He10 Incompatible with Most Asus Motherboards

    As I said, we also tried (and tried and tried) a 2015 mobo in what was actually a liquid cooled high end gaming build they had on display. Looks the same as their current lineup. A couple of guys from the store were surprisingly knowledgeable and agree, this is weird. I forgot to mention I...
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    HGST He10 Incompatible with Most Asus Motherboards

    Just picked up a pair of He10 drives. I've been really looking forward to owning HGSTs since I heard about them. I'm finding they just don't work with my 2012 or 2013 Asus motherboards. The folks at Fry's Electronics even tested them on a 2015 one and confirmed with me that it does not even come...
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    The Raptor RT01 Is Your Next Table / Desk

    Ahaha! It's $4,000 USD!
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    Unwarranted hard disk delay with new Asus P8Z77-V Pro

    I've been using hddparm for the past several days with no improvements :( I can't imagine what would do this...
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    Unwarranted hard disk delay with new Asus P8Z77-V Pro

    I've put together a new PC with good specs, but am encountering something I never did with my last build. In both cases I'm running Windows 8 x64 Consumer Preview. I have three 2 TB drives. Two are Caviar Blacks and one is a newly added Caviar Green. Now what's truly backwards is I get a delay...
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    Looking for an IDE controller that won't increase boot time

    I was impressed with how the BenQ actually chewed through those tests where most drives, yes including today's, come up short. Since perfect FLAC rips are all I'm looking for in an optical drive, I was just very happy to find a trusty one. I love this drive and would have gone to greater...
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    Looking for an IDE controller that won't increase boot time

    As usual, such great answers from Hardforum. Alternatives that hadn't even crossed my mind. I believe my friend has that Rosewill RC-204, but he maybe ran into the issue that it doesn't work for applications where the 4 pin molex goes in directly alongside the IDE? I could be making this up...
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