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

[scott]

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.

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.

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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