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.
ouch did you test the psu standalone before plugging it in ? I always use my 2x cheap psu testers one from antec to test new psu standalone before plugging it it. Sometimes you can get faulty psu out of the factory. I had one brand new psu arrive, tested it with antec psu tester and switch on and entire house electricity and safety circuit trip! So rma back to retailer to test, they plugged it and and turned it on and it fried their entire power surge board with smoke literally a mini fire happened EEK. Straight rma replacement