On 2/28/07, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ( and always make sure to have a quality PSU, long story
> short, bad ones kill hard drives).
How do they kill hard drives?
Sometimes power supplies blow up, frying the lot - not restricted to
disks, hard or otherwise.
Experiential Circumstances .. or we just got plain really bad luck.
Computer killed 2 Samsungs ( disk useless, but still ran, but very
slow, disk kept stopping responding randomly ), and a Western digital
( I put it in my computer (with decent PSU ) and it failed to even
spin up, and with everything plugged in it made my computer take half
an hour -just- to get to the grub prompt. ).
The samsungs took 6 months each to drop dead, and the WD took about 8.
I replaced the PSU on that box with a TT as a christmas gift ( it was
previously a 'generic' psu ) and its been running for 2 years straight
with no problems ( now with a seagate). That to me signifies either
the problem being solved, or simply really bad luck, or the seagate
being more resiliant to the hell ( and in my recent experience on my
own box, I cant stand seagate drives either ).
I opted for the PSU being the soultion, which seemed most logical to
me. Toms Hardware recently did a review on a bunch of -new- psu's and
found their long-term stress tollerance below tollerable on many
models, and did write in the section that sometimes they have
computers which seem to have all sorts of werid problems which the
only solution that works is replacement of PSU.
--
Kent
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