brand new western digital hdd caught fire

str8todamoney · Apr 29, 2014

Today while I was exporting a video to my hard drive on Adobe premiere my internal 1tb hard drive caught on fire. I bought this hard drive less than a week ago. Does anybody have any idea why it would catch on fire. Only that hard drive caught on fire. As soon as I unplugged the computer from the electricity the fire stopped. Here are some pictures

qwertyDS · Apr 29, 2014

That can be faulty cables or a bad power supply

mbarnes86 · Apr 29, 2014

Hi

Was it the smoke or the flames which alerted you to the problem
Window in you case?

This is the first time I have ever heard of a disk circuit board fire
I hope there was not any important data on it

What model & color is it so we can avoid them
Black, blue, green, red, purple ?

I would ask WD or their distributor for money to remove your pictures from this site

Regards
Mike Barnes

SethJPC · Apr 29, 2014

To cause a fire it would surely have been electrical. What PSU do you have? The 5v rail might have overloaded it.

fzabkar · Apr 29, 2014

ISTM that the motor controller caught fire.

To determine whether this was caused by your PSU, measure the resistances of the following components:

http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/bigcircuitboard_diodes.jpg

If either diode is shorted, then this would point to an overvoltage on the associated supply rail.

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brand new western digital hdd caught fire

str8todamoney

Distinguished

fzabkar

qwertyDS

Honorable

mbarnes86

Splendid

SethJPC

Distinguished

fzabkar

Judicious

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