Fried HDD's

[JointedFish]

I got hold of a new power supply an EVGA 1300watts for my unraid server. Nice little upgrade from my Corsair 750, traded my little qnap for it. You see where this is going. 

I have always used corsair psu when building pc's.
So im swapping the parts out, and in sheer utter lazyness in my 6 drive server, 20tb of worth space, i decide for some reason to reused the sata power cables.

 

I know better, ive had a used psu fry my pc from my childhood. I SHOULD HAVE KNOW BETTER. 

 

There is smoke coming out of the PC, my heart is racing and the smell of crispy electronics is oozing up to my nose, i dont know how the fire alarm didn't go off. 

 

Im already dead set that everything is fried.

I remove every component to see if anything could have survived, pc boots up fine with old psu, hmm. i expected this to not work at all... I plug in my gpu. 

Works ..

Hmm, 

 

my 6 drives

nada, nix poof

 

1 poor little ssd booted up. 

 

 

So in hindsight, its not a huge loss to my identity, mostly my pride and dignity. I even work in IT and built computers since could barely walk.

Its a loss and im quite sadden, but i have backups on around 60% of the stuff at least. 

 

So now im hoping the the two new psb's i just bought can save my array, and possibly save two hdds. However i still have to buy new ones ;/

Have you guys made some stupid expensive misstake?


TLDR: Used corsair sata cable in EVGA power supply, fried 3 6tb, and 2 ssd's 


 

[Letgomyleghoe]

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[CommanderAlex]

Well...at least it's not like the time I flipped the switch to go from 120V to 230V on the PSU of my first computer and blew the power supply. Best of luck in your recovery of your drives and everyone learned from this mistake: use the correct cables that were provided with the product you purchased. 

[Orange1]

Just now, CommanderAlex said:

Well...at least it's not like the time I flipped the switch to go from 120V to 230V on the PSU of my first computer and blew the power supply. Best of luck in your recovery of your drives and everyone learned from this mistake: use the correct cables that were provided with the product you purchased. 

Better built psu's would have had internal circuitry to not have that happen.

[CommanderAlex]

Just now, Orange1 said:

Better built psu's would have had internal circuitry to not have that happen.

The computer was from like 2007, so I doubt they had these features then. 

[Orange1]

Just now, CommanderAlex said:

The computer was from like 2007, so I doubt they had these features then. 

Yeah, detection for 120 vs 220 was available back then maybe such a niche in psu's.

[JointedFish]

3 minutes ago, CommanderAlex said:

Well...at least it's not like the time I flipped the switch to go from 120V to 230V on the PSU of my first computer and blew the power supply. Best of luck in your recovery of your drives and everyone learned from this mistake: use the correct cables that were provided with the product you purchased. 

My sister did this to her computer, and she said, "it said poof".

[CommanderAlex]

Just now, Orange1 said:

Yeah, detection for 120 vs 220 was available back then maybe such a niche in psu's.

The computer was a Compaq Presario SR series I don't recall which model number exactly.