Can SATA Ports Fry Hard Drives?

[PyroPlatypus]

Background: I have had the same motherboard for about 4 years and the same 860W power supply for over two year and it's hooked up to a hard drive and SSD. This has been working fine for all this time.

When I first bought a disk drive and plugged it in, it sparked and then obviously didn't work. I assumed it might have been an issue with the drive itself or the cable I was using. Now today I was hooking up an additional SSD (so it would be 1 HDD and 2 SDD) with a brand new sata cable and booted up my computer I smelt burning and both my SSD and Hard Drive are fried.

Is it possible that the SATA ports on my motherboard could cause it to fry my hard drives? I'm only thinking it could be that because that's the only major difference is using an additional SATA port compared to before. The power I was using for my hard drive and ssd were two different cables, so I don't think it was that.

 

[CountMike]

Never experienced it but I have heard of occurrences like that.

 

[COLGeek]

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Question from PyroPlatypus : "Can SATA Ports Fry Hard Drives?"

Background: I have had the same motherboard for about 4 years and the same 860W power supply for over two year and it's hooked up to a hard drive and SSD. This has been working fine for all this time.

When I first bought a disk drive and plugged it in, it sparked and then obviously didn't work. I assumed it might have been an issue with the drive itself or the cable I was using. Now today I was hooking up an additional SSD (so it would be 1 HDD and 2 SDD) with a brand new sata cable and booted up my computer I smelt burning and both my SSD and Hard Drive are fried.

Is it possible that the SATA ports on my motherboard could cause it to fry my hard drives? I'm only thinking it could be that because that's the only major difference is using an additional SATA port compared to before. The power I was using for my hard drive and ssd were two different cables, so I don't think it was that.

 

[CountMike]

What's with those multiple posts lately ? People not paying attention to where they post or what ?

 

[Louise Porkolt]

Hi there,
Never seen this issue before... but I wouldn't check the mobo but the PSU !
just test an old SATA-HDD on the PSU and don't connect it to the mobo !
If it fries too then you have your answer !

If not then check the Caps on your Mobo !
Something give too high voltage to the HDD's !

compare broken caps with this page :
http://www.capacitorlab.com/visible-failures/

let us know,
Cheers, Louise.