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January 31st, 2022 02:00

T7600 Precision Workstation drive bay question

Thanks in advance if you can help me with this question. I love my T7600.  I have had it since I bought it at the Dell Outlet in 2014.  Especially fond of the easy access components like the power supply and 8 hard drive bays. I don't have any big problems right now.  I recently successfully cloned my 500GB SSD boot drive to a 1T SSD with FSS Casper software.

However, when cloning my 1T Seagate HDD to a 6T Toshiba HDD, the operation failed 3 times with an error message that the source drive may have a cabling problem. So I am trying to find a work-around for this situation.  One of the questions that no one has been able to answer for me is... 

1. In the T7600, can I pull a drive out of its bay and put it into a different bay without causing a problem with the system?

I do not have RAID.  I don't have to move any of the SSDs.  Just one or more of the 3.5 drives. None of the HDDs have specific Volume Labels.  Would naming them make a difference?

I would be thrilled if you can answer that question - it seems simple, but I can find no reference to moving hard drives around in accessible bays perhaps because so few people have this ability.

Just in case you are interested, more details...

I am a cartoonist, filmmaker, graphic designer, etc. hence the need for space.  The 1T drive I am trying to clone is my D drive.  It is in drive bay 0.  It holds important active folders like MS OneDrive, and temp files like app data.   Not just stuff I have saved.  After cloning failed using a SATA to USB adaptor, I put the target drive into drive bay 3.  I had to format the drive and give it a drive letter H in order for Window 10 to see it.  Since I have received the same error message 3 times, that the problem is likely the SATA connection in Bay 0, I would like to try moving the D drive to a different bay.  I would have to remove or switch with a different drive to do that.  If that doesn't work, it probably means the problem is not the cabling to the 0 bay.  At least I will know that and start trying some other work-arounds. 

My Specs:  T7600 Precision Workstation
CPU: 2 x Intel Xeon Four Core E5-2609 0 (2.4Ghz, 10M, 6.4GT/s)
32GB (4x8GB) 1600MHz DDR3 ECC RDIMM
1 PNY NVIDIA Quadro M4000 Graphics Card VCQM4000-PB
1300W PSU
Windows 10 Pro 64bit
No RAID
Samsung 860 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-76E1T0B/AM) Boot

Drive num

Title-type-brand-model number

size

GBs-Ts

BUS num

Drive Bay

C

ATA SAMSUNG SSD  860 SCSI

2.5

1T

1

5

D

ATA ST1000DM003  1CH1 T SCSI

3.5

1T

4

0

G

ATA ST3000DM001  1CH1 3T SCSI

3.5

3T

6

2

F

ATA TOSHIBA DT01ACA2  2T SCSI

3.5

2T

5

1

M

ATA  WDC WD20NPVX-00E  2T  SCSI

2.5

2T

0

4

H

ATA TOSHIBA HDWR460 6T SCSI

3.5

6T

7

3