asked on 5/14/2011

USB hard drive I/O failures - Windows Server 2008 r1

I'm wondering if there are known issues with large USB hard drives with Windows Server 2008 r1. In the last 6 months I have had a 2TB and a 3TB (with 2TB partition since Windows wouldn't accept larger) USB drive fail with hard I/O errors. The 3TB drive was on a new PC, so it can't be the USB controller on the motherboard, and I'm pretty sure I replaced the USB cable.

I'm replacing tomorrow with an INTERNAL 2TB drive.

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wilri01

5/27/2011

noxcho

5/14/2011

Is the USB drive connected via powered USB hub? Lack of power is often cause of these IO errors.

wilri01

5/14/2011

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No, it's 3.5 with A/C adaptor.

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