Maxtor Hard Drive Caught FIRE!!!

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Aug 31, 2006 | 04:56 PM

Sly Raskal

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Maxtor Hard Drive Caught FIRE!!!

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Dell batteries you say catch fire? Well don't worry about that dell battery, look inside your PC case at your HDD, mine just went up in smoke and flames...

Read on to see the pics and learn more about exactly what happened!

Well, I was going about my business tonight, got back from the store and hit the power button on my computer... I heard this crackling sound, and smelled something burning, I got worried... but the system continued to boot, but didn't actually boot, it said NTLDR not found, which means it couldn't find the OS Loader on the other drives... so I restarted the system and went into the BIOS, sure enough my 200Gig SATA Maxtor hard drive wasn't there.....

So I powered the system off and pulled the drive, I examined it and it looked fine, so I figured I would just plug it in while it was out of the case to make sure it was running... when I hit the power button flames..LITERALLY shot out of the bottom of the HDD, I was like F**K!! The flames were a good three inches high, I quickly hit the power button on the PSU to Power everything down and un hooked the drive, one of the chips on the bottom of the HDD is burned badly, it actually looks like it exploded, some of the legs came de-soldered and are actually bent outwards like they blew out...

I popped a new HDD in the case and am installing Windows XP on there now, so the system still works fine, just the HDD got fried apparently...

BUT FLAMES SHOOTING OUT OF IT?!?!?!?! Damn, first dell batteries now Hard Drives... What's next?!?

ANd FYI, the Hard Drive is a 200Gig Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA150 Manufactured on March 1st 2005

I bought the drive in June of 2005 from NewEgg, it has been fine ever since, I came home from store and POOF... No overheating no nothing, ,machineis not overclocked...

Here are the pics, in no certain order, just a bunch on them.. they are 1024x768 in size

Aug 31, 2006 | 04:58 PM

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And that's why I buy Seagate.

Aug 31, 2006 | 04:59 PM

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I've never been a fan of Maxtor. This is just another list of reasons fo why to add to my list.

Aug 31, 2006 | 05:00 PM

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And that's why I buy Seagate.

all the drives I buy are seagate.

Aug 31, 2006 | 05:01 PM

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i stick with WD or seagate, never did like maxtor

Aug 31, 2006 | 05:02 PM

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I've had good luck with Fujitsu too.

Aug 31, 2006 | 05:20 PM

PimpCL23

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i got a maxtor in my xbox..... wait... i cant remember now....

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Aug 31, 2006 | 05:47 PM

Bobbydoedoe

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Maxtor=the suck
Seagate, Western digital=ftw

Aug 31, 2006 | 05:56 PM

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I doubt there was a fire. I had an old motherboard lying around and we took two terminals from an electric train transformer and touched em to random parts of the board. We had gotten chips to glow in small sections and smoke, but no flames.

Mike

Aug 31, 2006 | 06:00 PM

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Looks pretty bad to me..

Aug 31, 2006 | 06:10 PM

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It sure does, never seen that before...

Aug 31, 2006 | 06:18 PM

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I haven't bought a maxtor since my 40 MB drive crashed on my that I spent $400 on. WD has grown by leaps and bounds.

Aug 31, 2006 | 06:28 PM

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that burnt out chip was not made by maxtor in all likelihood

Aug 31, 2006 | 06:30 PM

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also if he bought an identical maxtor hd and swapped the circuit boards, he could probably get his data back

Aug 31, 2006 | 06:40 PM

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Someone needs to stop overclocking their hard drive.

I like the name Seagate, which is why I bought one. Maxtor sounds :ghey:

Aug 31, 2006 | 06:42 PM

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Someone needs to stop overclocking their hard drive.

I got my hard drive overclocked to 25,000 RPM

Aug 31, 2006 | 06:46 PM

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I got my hard drive overclocked to 25,000 RPM

Instant porn on demand. No load times.

Aug 31, 2006 | 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by mr.motoring

Instant porn on demand. No load times.

But if you are serving from an NAS, you have to overclock your network too.

Aug 31, 2006 | 07:05 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Sly Raskal

I got my hard drive overclocked to 25,000 RPM

Pffft...that's nothing. Wait until my HD's VTEC kicks in.

It'll blast up to 45,000RPM.

Aug 31, 2006 | 08:20 PM

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did you report this to Maxtor?

Aug 31, 2006 | 08:23 PM

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Looks like a fried chip, it could be caused from all sorts of things. A bad voltage regulator on the mobo, a voltage spike when he turned on the computer from the power supply. He could have water cooling in his system and has some water short out stuff...

who knows, it's not a common thing to happen though...

Someone looking for their 15m of fame on the internet

Aug 31, 2006 | 11:28 PM

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Maxtor and Seagate are the same company...

Aug 31, 2006 | 11:32 PM

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Originally Posted by SiGGy

EXACTLY...!! Thank you..

How many more - ______ caught on fire sites are there going to be..?

I mean read this..

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I examined it and it looked fine, so I figured I would just plug it in while it was out of the case to make sure it was running... when I hit the power button flames..

Could be ESD issue.
My guess is he didn't unplug the power cord in the back of the computer Or he tried to plug it back in with the power on.. Any combination of power, ESD sensitive chips and not being grounded is Asking for trouble.. Was probably touching the chip or a component on the PCB when he powered it.

He's a idiot..

Aug 31, 2006 | 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ryder1650

Maxtor and Seagate are the same company...

That was recent. It says in the article that the person bought the drive in June 2005.

Aug 31, 2006 | 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by knight rider

did you report this to Maxtor?

It wasn't my drive, I found it on the net.

Sep 1, 2006 | 07:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Yumchah

Pffft...that's nothing. Wait until my HD's VTEC kicks in.

It'll blast up to 45,000RPM.

but where does it redline....

Sep 1, 2006 | 08:06 AM

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but where does it redline....

About 200 rpm before it blows up.

Sep 1, 2006 | 08:43 AM

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Originally Posted by fla-tls

About 200 rpm before it blows up.

Sep 2, 2006 | 02:45 AM

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AGH IT'S THE DREADED 'TIN WHISKERS'

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Perhaps the biggest unknown in the lead-removal process is the danger of so-called tin whiskers. The subject of much debate and little consensus, tin whiskers are tiny, spontaneous growths that can sprout from surface finishes and cause electrical shorts. In the past, the tin was mixed with lead to prevent the whiskers.

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technol...cbccdrcrd.html