04-27-2021, 05:23 PM
This is a thermal problem.
I had the same issue with the Pine store SATA card, and I was to buy a new one, when I noticed that all other SATA cards have some kind of a heat sink. I touched the IC on my (running) card... It was hot.
I shut down the system, took out the card and glued a tiny 2cm*2cm heatsink on it with thermal glue. I plugged it back, and although it was still a bit too hot, I managed to run it with a single HDD for days.
I also sat a fan blowing air at the card and the Rockpro64 and that reduced the temperatures to a comfortable level (airflow isn't the best, it's a 12V fan running on 3.3V to be quiet) and my NAS is online for weeks now without disk issues.
I had the same issue with the Pine store SATA card, and I was to buy a new one, when I noticed that all other SATA cards have some kind of a heat sink. I touched the IC on my (running) card... It was hot.
I shut down the system, took out the card and glued a tiny 2cm*2cm heatsink on it with thermal glue. I plugged it back, and although it was still a bit too hot, I managed to run it with a single HDD for days.
I also sat a fan blowing air at the card and the Rockpro64 and that reduced the temperatures to a comfortable level (airflow isn't the best, it's a 12V fan running on 3.3V to be quiet) and my NAS is online for weeks now without disk issues.