Why did my drive last only one week???

[keyter]

Hi guys

I posted this somewhere else, but maybe I should be asking here.

I just bought a new 1.5tb Seagate SATA2 HDD last week, and it seems that its already on its way out again. I left the PC on last night to do a defrag, and this morning, the drive was not responsive in windows - in My Computer it didn't even show how much free space available.

My last 500gb Seagate lasted about 3 weeks, then it was also gone. The 500 before that about 3 months. The thing is that the 250gig Samsung with my OS on works fine through all of this, and I have them connected on the same power harness coming from the PSU.

I fitted a new SATA cable, put it on another power molex, fitted a hdd cooler, but now the drive seems to be going again.

Could my PSU be the issue (I will test voltages during the weekend) or could something else couse me all this sht.

My Specs:

AMD 5400+ BE (OC 3080Mhz)
Biostar TF570SLI mobo
4 X OCZ 1g Reaper DDR2 - 1066
Corsair TX650 PSU
ATI Radeon 4870 1g
Samsung Spinpoint 250g containing OS (Vista 64 SP2)
Seagate 1.5tb

Any ideas greatly appreciated

 

[shabaa]

It is either a voltage supply issue or a bad data cable. Check your voltage with a dvom while the system is on.....