3 hard drives dying in a desktop within a couple months... power supply issue?
We have a dell optiplex 390, shipped in June 2012. So 5 1/2 years old.
In June 2017 the OEM hard drive failed - not spinning at all.
Put in a couple / few year old hard drive that we had lying around. Restored from backup.
Blew out accumulated dust (which wasn't much)
October 2017 - that hard drive failed. Not spinning at all.
Put in another couple year old hard drive
Used a couple year old digital power tester like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Q8SUYHW/ref=asc_df_B00Q8SUYHW5223423
and power tested good per this:
https://www.lifewire.com/power-supply-voltage-tolerances-2624583
Within a couple weeks - that 3rd hard drive failed - put your ear to the drive, you hear it spin up for a couple seconds then silent whenever power is supplied.
Change out the original oem power supply? walk away from this? thoughts?
the 3 drives were seagate and western digital (not fly by night brand).
yeah all 3 were not new when they died but I checked smart settings with crysttal disk info on the 2 replacement drives before putting them in. I forget the number of hours the app said they had been running.
I;ve taken the failed drives and connected to other power supplies - same thing - no sound or on the 3rd, it spins for a second then shuts down.
In June 2017 the OEM hard drive failed - not spinning at all.
Put in a couple / few year old hard drive that we had lying around. Restored from backup.
Blew out accumulated dust (which wasn't much)
October 2017 - that hard drive failed. Not spinning at all.
Put in another couple year old hard drive
Used a couple year old digital power tester like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00Q8SUYHW/ref=asc_df_B00Q8SUYHW5223423
and power tested good per this:
https://www.lifewire.com/power-supply-voltage-tolerances-2624583
Within a couple weeks - that 3rd hard drive failed - put your ear to the drive, you hear it spin up for a couple seconds then silent whenever power is supplied.
Change out the original oem power supply? walk away from this? thoughts?
the 3 drives were seagate and western digital (not fly by night brand).
yeah all 3 were not new when they died but I checked smart settings with crysttal disk info on the 2 replacement drives before putting them in. I forget the number of hours the app said they had been running.
I;ve taken the failed drives and connected to other power supplies - same thing - no sound or on the 3rd, it spins for a second then shuts down.
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Care to take a shot at this question:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29063597/when-do-you-say-it's-working-but-you-have-to-replace-the-PC.html
https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/29063597/when-do-you-say-it's-working-but-you-have-to-replace-the-PC.html
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I have an old ATX power supply so I put that in and we'll see how it works out.
thanks!