So I power up my rig one evening and my 1yr old Maxtor 80gb D740X-6L starts making this awefull clacking noise that I can only describe as sounding very similar to the sound you would hear if you ...

If your computer doesn't detect NVMe SSD, verify the connection, change drive letter & format SSD, etc to fix NVMe SSD not detected issue.

I'm not looking to hook up a RAID config but I will add a second hard drive for storage at a later time. The WD drive is set to master with no jumpers and is on my IDE3 RAID port.

External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your device is not detected by Windows or macOS.