Did I kill my HDD?

[AlexSaff]

I recently purchased two WD caviar black 3TB HDDs and just plugged the first one into my PC. I turned the system on and it gives me a Asus anti-surge message. I also smell this foul sorta smokey smell coming from my PC. Everything is fine except for the black drive, I can boot from my ssd and it's all good, but the hard drive isn't in the bios or disk management. I thought that I might have just killed it and I came here before I plugged the other one in.

 

[Xtergo]

1. Take out the drive and gently keep it up side down where u might see the back where the pcb is, can u smell burned plastic or remains of molten plastic or something like that ?

2. What Power supply do you have and how old is it ? as its the reason mostly that hdd get that smoke problem

3. You might try to plug it in but the smoke is so intense and foul smelling and there is also a slight chance of sparks but you can close the pc quick in a sudden

 

[AlexSaff]

1. Take out the drive and gently keep it up side down where u might see the back where the pcb is, can u smell burned plastic or remains of molten plastic or something like that ?

2. What Power supply do you have and how old is it ? as its the reason mostly that hdd get that smoke problem

3. You might try to plug it in but the smoke is so intense and foul smelling and there is also a slight chance of sparks but you can close the pc quick in a sudden

When I turn it upside down I can smell the burnt plastic smokey smell.

My power supply is an AX 860i which is around a month old and I have used my computer for maybe 12 hours since I've put it together.

Maybe I fried the circuit, but I'm not sure how. I have tried to put 4 HDDs into this computer and its destroyed all of them, luckily no data has been lost because all the drives were brand new but I'm started to get a little annoyed with all these HDDs and returning them only to destroy the next one that gets delivered to me.

 

[Xtergo]

are u using video card in sli asking to get know your power consumtion

 

[IntelTurtleFan]

AXi is a pretty good unit but it is the only part that can explain the smoke reasonably. I would replace it. Smoke should never come from a computer.

What are your specs so I can recommend a replacement?

 

[Xtergo]

Please mention every single thing running on that system

 

[AlexSaff]

AXi is a pretty good unit but it is the only part that can explain the smoke reasonably. I would replace it. Smoke should never come from a computer.

What are your specs so I can recommend a replacement?

Specs are as follows:

5960X (running 3.0ghz)
GTX 980ti
850 EVO
Asus x99 -a
Kraken x61
16gb ddr4 vengeance RAM (3000mhz)

 

[IntelTurtleFan]

Likely your PSU. I would not turn the PC on until you get a replacement. I would recommend the 850W-1000W G2/P2 from EVGA or another tier 1 unit listed here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2547993/psu-tier-list.html

Once you get a replacement check to make sure your water pump is still working.

 

[Xtergo]

you need more watts to run 4 drives and that card plus that cpu and there should also be extra power space so that u supply doesn't get on load u need 1000w

 

[AlexSaff]

you need more watts to run 4 drives and that card plus that cpu and there should also be extra power space so that u supply doesn't get on load u need 1000w

I think you are confused. when I said it had destroyed 4 drives I meant that of the two drives that I was planning to put it in, it had destroyed both the two that I put in and the two that I got after returning them. I did a PSU calculator check and it said I need ~550 watts

 

[Dark antz1]

Nvidia recommend 600w PSU for a 980Ti. So your current PSU is a good choice. So one HDD has burnt out? and the seocnd one you have is fine as you havent plugged it in?
Also what country are you from? do you have stable electricicity, are you running your PC through any kind of UPS/ surge protection/ regulator?

 

[AlexSaff]

I live in Los Angeles. I have Asus anti-surge, but that's it. And yes, the second one is fine as I haven't plugged it in yet.

 

[Dark antz1]

you have just bought these right? so they and everything else are still under warrenty? Plug the other one in. As you have drives and other things that are already running fine then it was more likely a fault with the SATA circuitatry in the drive. If they break then RMA the drives and the PSU. If it works fine just RMA the smoking drive.