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Originally posted by: airfoil
Originally posted by: Speedo
Today I for the first time saw a dead WD drive (WD1200). And not only was it dead, it is shorted somehow so it fried the PSU! Have any of you ever experienced this before? Also, when turning the hardrive quickly, I can hear something is loose inside. Also it smells awful from the spindel motor.
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Thats pretty interesting, haven't heard that one before. How could you be sure it wasn't the other way around?
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I am not. But if the PSU killed the HD, then I assume it would have taken other things with it, like the DVD, CDRW and/or mobo. Only the HD was burned.
 
Funny, seems like most people have had bad luck with Maxtor. I, on the other hand, have never had a problem with Maxtor. The other brand drive I have is Western Digital. However, when I first got that from NewEgg, it failed within a month. After going through the RMA process, I received another one and have not had a problem with it so for. That was 2 years ago.
 
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