thatflashcat
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I was hoping I wouldn't need to return here for a while, but alas, I've had yet another drive fail on me. At first I assumed it was just another bad drive before noticing a similarity to the last failure (which was just a month ago): Both drives were connected to the last power sata power connector (top-most in the picture below).
Is it bad practice to use three spinning disks on a single connector like this? I'm using an EVGA 750w G3, so I didn't have another way of connecting the drives and never thought it could be an issue.
All told out of 6 drives:
Regardless, one of the three dead drives that has died completely was a replacement for a previous failure. This makes it less likely that the failing drives are lemons from the same batch, but I guess I could be unlucky twice. Is it possible that my PSU is killing them?
(Lastly, temperatures are in the 30-35 C range, so I doubt that is the issue.)
Is it bad practice to use three spinning disks on a single connector like this? I'm using an EVGA 750w G3, so I didn't have another way of connecting the drives and never thought it could be an issue.
All told out of 6 drives:
- 2 drives have shown smart errors
- 3 drives had died completely
Regardless, one of the three dead drives that has died completely was a replacement for a previous failure. This makes it less likely that the failing drives are lemons from the same batch, but I guess I could be unlucky twice. Is it possible that my PSU is killing them?
(Lastly, temperatures are in the 30-35 C range, so I doubt that is the issue.)