cluffenstein

So, I've had 3 hard drives fail this week..

1) my main 320gb SATA II Seagate - Now.. this hard drive was abused before it even went in (I accidentally dropped it when I took it out of the box, but it worked fine for the over a year I had it...) this gave me a click click click..

2) My backup drive (500gb) SATA II.. Now, I got the first one in June of 08, it failed in August or September 2008.. I got it replaced in July, and its dead again (failed chkdsk for no reason, Chkdsk can't fix it.)

3) a random 40gb IDE drive. This got pulled out of a computer from 04. I rebooted my PC after I installed PowerISO (I don't have a dvd-drive that works for a desktop, and I just got Aion (too bad I can't play it.. its freakin AWESOME, in the hour I played it.) Now, this one will show up in windows, but refuses to initialize, and shows up as "IC 5LO 0AVV2 7 0 ATA Device" in windows..

Can a PSU really fail so hardcore and kill 3 hard drives?

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ChielScape

yes, it can
i had a crappy PSU before... killed mobo, harddrive, soundcard and memory.

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cluffenstein

but after.. 4ish years?

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LiNERROR

everything works until it breaks... that's what breaking means... it doesn't work any longer :P

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legoman786

Sounds like your drive controller is eating them up. Upgrade time?

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Murlocke

PSU might be giving more volts on 1 cable line.... if your hooking it up to the same connectors than its probably PSU. Could also be your motherboard I think...

A crappy PSU can take your entire PC out in less than a second, i've had it happen to me. Everything was working, then my computer shut down. Every piece of hardware was fried. I filed a complaint with the PSU company and got it all replaced though.

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Rewindlabs

Drive controller?

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xxicrimsonixx

Definitely the motherboard that is causing it if they are all being plugged into the same motherboard. Get a new one (I doubt it is the PSU because if the PSU was failing, it wouldn't single out just some HDDs).

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Nesix

Oh noes!! Its teh hardware killa! lol.
but i would check your psu just to be on the safe side.

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LightsInTheDark

Get that thing checked, yo. :P

And RMA THOSE DRIVES.

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