[ale] two sata drives fail at the same time?

[Geoffrey]

scott wrote:
> where the drives on the same controller?  I have seen when 1 drive
> goes bad the controller thinks another drive on the controller is bad
> when it truly isnt.  I would plug in the drives one by one in another
> computer to see if they come to life.

Tried that.  Further, Tried both an addon sata card and the motherboard 
sata.

> 
> If they dont, then the probability is a bad component that they share
> like a PS (someone else mentioned this) is what caused them to fail.

I've going to check the ps.

> 
> scott
> 
> On Dec 6, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> 
>> Geoffrey wrote:
>>> So, what are the chances that two different sata drives, same 
>>> manufacturer (wd), that were purchased at different times, would
>>> fail at exactly the same time?
>>> 
>>> Is it possible for a drive failure to cause another to fail?  I'm
>>>  grasping, but I just can see this happening.
>>> 
>>> They were connected to an interface card, so I removed it and
>>> connected them to the onboard interface, no go.  both drives
>>> appear to exhibit low clicking sounds.
>>> 
>>> This pretty much sucks.
>>> 
>>> This system sits behind a decent ups/surge protector, no problems
>>> with any other hardware and no recent electrical issues known.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> Bad power supply/bad 12v rail/bad connection?  Using any molex 
>> splitters/converters? 
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