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My Maxtor Hard Drive Just Caught Fire!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hate-when-that-happens dept.

Dracos writes "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..." Could be worse. It could be ball lightning. I hear there's a lot of that going around inside servers these days.

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  1. Re:Attack of the soldering iron & needle nose by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Troll

    that or the other usual suspects...

    "my 360 caught on fire, all I did was wrap it in a shag carpet, douse it in petrol and stick it in the microwave, that's totally normal usage!"

    Look people, it's call ventilation. I don't care how cool your heatsink is, or how many LEDs you have in the front of the case. If the air doesn't move over the components they'll heat up. Heat up being "additive". Given enough time they do the nasty [usually just cause a crash via PCI lockups or memory corrupt etc].

    So how about you [you==stupid people] stop overclocking your shit, air out the damn case and MOVE OUT OF YOUR PARENTS BASEMENT!.

    Tom

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  2. He is guilty!! by chowdy · · Score: 0, Troll

    He clearly purposely set fire to his drive to remove evidence of his pirated software.

  3. And this... by jb.hl.com · · Score: 0, Troll

    And this, my friends, is why you shouldn't buy Maxtor. I've never had anything but trouble with Maxtor drives.

    Western Digital all the way for me :)

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