hard drive disintegration

Teekster

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I have had 2 Maxtor hard drives die in the same computer in the past 2 months. The first was a 30GB 7200 rpm ATA66 drive. The second was a 60GB 7200 rpm ATA 100 drive. Both were purchased new in retail boxes from CompUSA. The first drive was about 1 year old and the second was approaching 2 months. Both drives made clicking noises and were no longer recognized.

I was running these on an Asus CUV4X motherboard with a PIII 750 that was overclocked to 900 on the first crash and not overclocked at all on the second. My case has a 250W PSU. Since the first crash, I added a UPS to prevent damage from brown-outs.

Both drives were replaced promptly by Maxtor, but I lost a lot of data on the first drive (had been a little lazy backing things up).

Do any if you have suggestions on what might be causing this or how to prevent it?
 

myforum

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Scarified....are you?
Don't be and OCing, the PS or MoBo didn't have anything to do with it either....it was just a wierd thing that happened Teekster.

CU8er
 

TunaBoo

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99% likely its heat. Try to have 10-20 CFM of air over both the top and bottom. Dont sndwich it in somewhere.
 

Teekster

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Thanks guys,

nothing was sandwiched and the 60GB drive was always cool to the touch.