Quote Originally Posted by Computurd View Post
terrible news here..hooked up the st1500 and then started hearing arcing/seeing smoke/smelling fire/etc..
so of co0urse i have to unplug the psu
this is the first boot mind you
and the ign thing fried 3 of my ssd's!!! one is torched, the other two are toasted, but no visible scorching.
all three were on the same cord, which has visible scorching on it.
unbelievable.
absolutely unbelievable.
fried the sas/sata fanouts on the ssds as well, but thank god the controller looks to be alright.
sheer dumb luck that somehow it would fry the cables, yet leave the card in fine shape.
i am crushed! now time to see what they will do about it
i am wondering if they are going to cover the ing damage here. this : was hooked up correctly. there is no reason in gods green earth that the sata port should do that.
Well to be honest i never heard of the brand of psu you use and i have heared and experienced that those non brand/cheaper brand's fry stuff.

Be quiet
antec
thermaltake
ocz
corsair
evga (its a rebranded antec with the option to tweak the voltages)

Those are the only brands i thrust for psu's.

But hopefully you can get a few new free ssd's out of this.
Intel G3's perhaps