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This morning i turned on my pc and i smelled smoke coming out of my pc and it was ssd burning on fire. Im wondering could you guys help me find problem why did my ssd burn?

 pc specs:

 

ProcesorIntel® Core™ CORE I5-4690 3.4-3.9 GHZ, 6 MB cache, 4 cores
main boardGigabyte GA-B85M-D2V
ram: 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHZ in dual channel mode
HDD : 1 TB 7200 RPM  64 Mb cache SATA3
ODD: DVD-RW 22X Dual Layer
VGA: nVidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB DDR5
Flash CF (Compact Flash) I and II; MD (Micro Drive); SM (Smart Media); SD (Secure Disk); MMC (Multimedia Card); MS (Memory Stick); IBM micro drive.
2 x USB 3.0 ir 4 x USB 2.0 on back of case  + 2 x USB 2.0 , 2 x SATA2 + 4 x SATA3 , PS/2 
psu:  gtt (golden tiger technology) 600W

ssd: SanDisk Standard 128GB SATA3, 475/375MBs, IOPS 8.1/4.5K

     

sorry for bad english its not my main language.

 

http://imageshack.com/a/img829/5990/gpr8.jpg ssd photo after burn.

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Damn! Sorry to hear that :( Must have been awful to smell that from your computer... Atleast it almost certainly wasn't ssd's fault. I would also blame psu OR how was your ssd connected to psu? Was it on native SATA-power cable or was there a molex to sata power adapter? That could explain it.

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Change your PSU before you burn anything else !!

 

Any 500 to 600 W PSU with at least 80+ bronze certificate (corsair, seasonic, cooler master, etc)

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I'd also blame the PSU as that is the only non branded part of the system.

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it was connected to sata 3 on maindoard and power was coming from psu connected with molex diretcly to ssd (its hard to understand because my english is bad).  i hope you understand what i said :)

 

Hmm.. it probably wasn't connected with molex. As modern drives have only SATA-power cables. But i understand that there was no adapter. Then i don't know why it burned. :( It must have been the PSU. Buy a new one.

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I agree. Although you can't rule out that the SSD was faulty, replacing the power supply and being thankful nothing else blew up is a first step. I myself run a Cooler Master PSU as their products tend to be good bang for buck (antec is usually not bad either), but any name brand 80PLUS rated unit will do. You said you were using a molex connector. SSDs use, as far as I know, SATA power connectors exclusively, so if you were using a cheapy molex-to-sata adapter cable, maybe it has faulty wiring and is to blame.

 

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