Help! I keep frying WD hard drives

[mrdercity]

Any help would be appreciated. I fried my 3rd Western Digital hard drive in the last month. I've got a 60g western digital as a slave and a 30g maxtor drive as master. Both drives are mounted very far away from my CDRW drive. I've had my 10g Seagate hard drive as a slave for years with my Maxtor with no problems. I've got no idea why only the Western Digital drives fail. Any suggestions? Thanks. -anthony


system specs
amd 2400+
ATI 9700 Pro
Audigy 2 Platinum
512mb (3200)
500 Watt Power Magic PSU
Soyo Dragon KT400 Lite

 

[Crashman]

Were the second two drives ones you got on warranty from WD? Because I've had severe problems with WD's warranty replacement drives.

<font color=blue>Watts mean squat if you don't have quality!</font color=blue>

 

[soulprovider]

To my knowlede. WD will replace a defective drive with a refurbished one but if this drive also fails they will replace it with a new one.

Cant remember the link but it was on WD's site.

<b>Vorsprung durch Dontwerk</b>.....<i>as they say at VIA</i>

 

[blah]

I wonder why pplz are so abscessed with WD drives, there are some other brands to consider. I am still sitting with couple of GXPs with SCSI Seagate and have no issues at all. And PCs are almost always on, not jst 11 hours a day as suggested by IBM (but then again, maybe I am just lucky

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