Can a bad power supply effect your HDD?

[hyperr]

my hard disk


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136260

and my power supply

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=ESTAR-580-24



every hard drive i use seems to fail even this one that was new when i bought it started to fail not sure why..

i tested my ram it was all good cpu runs a little high but seems to not be the problem


CPU is a intel core 2 duo 3 ghz

is it possible my hard drive is only failing because of my power supply unit?

 

[hyperr]

just opened up my PSU and found some orang melted stuff ?

 

[abekl]

Hmm. Could be a bad power supply and it was providing bad power levels or dirty power on that lead. Finding that orange melted goop is not good. Time to invest in a new one.

 

[hyperr]

http://imgur.com/6lVxD,deMMc

picture of orange goop kinda hard to see

 

[Guest]

bad power supply may damage everything from motherboard to hard disk. Be very careful.

 

[hyperr]

well i hear the noise from my HDD

 

[amuffin]

well i hear the noise from my HDD

It might be spinning, but it might not be able to read any data.

Same thing has happened to me, a rocketfish 700W blew one of my seagate 300GB HDD's.

 

[hyperr]

do you think if i replace the PSU my hdd will start running again?

 

[abekl]

who knows. The only way to know is to test it in another system, or replace the PSU and try it in this system.