Can Power Supply Unit damage system?

[viotrex]

Recently I bought a Maxtor Diamond Plus 30GB hdd. But I have had it changed for the 3rd time already. Some of my friends told me it could be the power supply unit that's at fault. And some of them told me that it could be heat problems due to the fact that it's running at 7200 RPM. I am getting quite frustrated here as the technicians over at Maxtor can't tell me what's the problem as well.

And I can't distinguished whether my PSU is APPROVED or NOT APPROVED. Please tell me how do I check whether it's Approved or not. And whether a PSU really have that huge impact on my system and hdd. Cause I was thinking, logically, if the PSU can damaged the hdd due to voltage fluctuation, then shouldn't my Celeron ship get fried first? since CPU is more heat and voltage sensitive.

I appreciate any help that I CAN get.
Thanks alot.

 

[WHipLAsh13]

Go here to get a list of approved athlon power supplies. The power supply could possibly damage your hard drive but you are right in that it would also damage other peripherals also. Have you tried installing a utlility like Sisoft's Sandra to check your case temperature. Maybe you need more air circulation.

 

[John]

Valhalla1 had 3 or more HDD's die on him until I suggested a powersupply replacement. Maybe a coincidence?

 

[viotrex]

Thanks for the swift response guys regarding my PSU problems, but I am not using AMD but using Intel /b Celeron /b. So is there also a list of approved power supply units for Intel based system? I am quite desperate to get a good and reliable power supply, cause as I am typing this, I can hear my hdd having those funny noises again.

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