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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 |
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