Recently, I am having much fun with Ubuntu on my old Dell, I was wondering what is stopping me from having the same cool environment on my desktop PC.
Afterall, I have a couple of spare disks lying around, one of which was a replacement Maxtor drive that I managed to get out of the warranty. I had it formatted from my XP about a month ago and left it there.
Few nights ago, I connected it with my external USB SATA/IDE interface with external power, it tripped my house. I thought that it was just a faulty power adapter that blew, man I was wrong!
I tried my luck again yesterday, plugged the same Maxtor disk right into the motherboard and crank up the PC. Within a few seconds, the disk circuit board started to burn (click on picture to see the charred spot).
I will never buy a Maxtor disk again.
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November 27th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Good thing it was only the circuit board that burnt, and not your room! =O