Multiple hard drive failures...what could be causing it?

[Jake Maverick]

This has been going on for about 6 weeks now. Just don't understand what has been going on....this is a high spec computer, AMD bulldozer 6 core chip....and i've had a whole bunch of hard drives fail on me one after the other :-( & not cheap one's....I've had several 2tb and 1 tb drives go down on me....managed to replace some on ebay, had to get a 1.5tb as funds are really tight....and that one had very low usage, only 20 hours on the clock or something...but last night the health just dropped str8 down to 15% on it with no warning...so disconnected now....i had only just finished recovering all my data to it :-(

I had suspected the sata card, but i've replaced that 3 times now also. But now I'm wondering....could a faulty motherboard or psu be killing my drives? I built this computer several years ago and never had a problem with it until recently....the psu is a good one, best i ever had...600 watt with detachable cables....wasn't cheap! but was 2nd hand when i got it but been in use for about 4 years now....doesn't seem to be any kind of detectable problem there? I am quite poor anyway and already spent all my money so not going to be able to fix now in the forseeable future....but any advice on what could possibly be causing this would be very much appreciated?

 

[Jake Maverick]

Never had a problem with xp64, always worked like a dream for me.

I had discounted this one, but not so sure now...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SATA-pcie-card-6Gbps/222766855451?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649

that was the replacement sata card i bought....'cept when i got it it wouldn't fit the slot...mine's not open ended and was just a little bit too big. So it's been in a pcie 16 slot instead and seemed to be working fine....I have pulled it now and seem to be getting less errors. Doing file verification now via a different sata card...just hit 50% with an hour + to go, i probably just jinxed it now.....;-)

struck me as odd on that card though...supposed to be a pcie 2.0 card but just wouldn't fit so had to google on that one....and read about the ports and what have you, had no idea it would work in the really big pcie 16 slot, but now i'm wondering it might not be doing so at 100%, which has been causing the probs? hopefully.... pretty sure it's still a pcie 2.0 card though, can't see what else it can be?

um, video files....talking about nearly 2500 of them.....some are corrupted, some aren't....I doubt such a thing exists but is there any special program that will go through and check them all, make sure they're complete and they play right? without having to watch every single one again..... :-(