Recent content by monguin

Poor choice of wording maybe. I'm upset that the industry has apparently settled on a not-a-standard that allowed this to happen with what were standard connectors and cables in the past (or maybe I'm just wrong there). I wonder why things developed this way, but like I said, my own fault...

Yep, learning that lesson the hard way. I haven't kept up with hardware developments in a long time, I feel like if I can fry a HD by plugging it in, that's a massive failure of standards. But I guess I only have myself to blame.

I assume that means only the board is dead, any idea if that's true?

I have two of these drives shucked from WD easy stores. I used them in an old PC for several years with no trouble. I replaced the PSU in that PC with an Antec Earthwatts 380, and found that the drives didn't power on, I assumed it was a wattage problem. In my new PC, with a Seasonic FOCUS...