You don't have this kind of hardware, so your 5 disks will draw up to 150W at spin-up.
Now, a proper server would spin up disks one by one to avoid power spikes. Based on my experience I'd assume 30W per disk is required. HDDs don't draw that much power under normal operation - generally less 10W per disk, possibly less - but they do draw a lot more when they're spinning up. You can make the assumption that it's disk's fault this time, but if this assumption is wrong, you'll fry another disk. It's not guaranteed to work, but it's better to have it than not.Īgain, I wouldn't trust this PSU. PSU's short-circuit protection should kick in and save the other disk (and everything else that's powered by that PSU rail). SATA data cable doesn't use high-power signals. You can donate it to someone who is willing and knowledgeable enough to check if it's fine and fix it if necessary.
Frankly, I'd probably get a new one and wouldn't trust this one.
Backups solve all of these problems.įollow the 3-2-1 strategy: 3 copies using 2 types of media, including 1 off-site copy. You PSU can fail, cables can short, disk may die due to manufacturing issues or old age, malware can delete or encrypt your files and finally, you can simply delete them accidentally. The only reliable solution for data loss is having automated, known-good, restorable backups. How can I prevent more broken hard disks/other hardware and what should I do to detect the problem? You can't. Can you add to much hard disks to a PSU? I have 5 HDD’s, but an Corsair PSU of 750 Watt, so I don’t think that is the problem?.Can a hard disk just create a shortcut itself and take another hard disk with it? If that’s the case, I think I can safely rebuild my pc.Can broken SATA data cables can cause a broken hard disk? I never heard something like that.Can I safely assume that my modular PSU cables are allright and should I check if there are other problems? If so, what could possibly be wrong?.I could open and close the drive with every connection and I didn’t smell anything. I think I used the modular cables that belong to my PSU, but since I was not sure, I connected all SATA connections of every modular cable to an old dvd-drive. What I tried: it thought it may be a power short cut. My question: How can I prevent more broken hard disks/other hardware and what should I do to detect the problem?
Broken hard disk Pc#
Since, I smelled something weird and the fact that more than one hard disk failed, I didn’t dare to put my other hard disks in this pc anymore. My external hdd caddy doesn’t recognize these two hard disk. Now, suddenly two hard disks won’t work anymore (unfortunately I don’t remember if these hard disks were on the same modular sata power cable, but I think I connected these hard disks to the same modular cable - and only these hard disks). However, after I thought I smelled some burning plastic I immediately shut down the pc and pulled all the cables. I installed an old SATA hard disk in my pc and used my modular PSU cables to attach it.
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