Anatomy of a OCZ SSD smoked drive.

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I’m not an electrician but if Comp had his SSD’s wired up in this configuration why would the first SSD not have received the worst damage if the PSU was at fault?

From what Comp has described the worst damage was on the last one on the power line and the damage was then less extensive as you went back towards the PSU.

If something went wrong on the last SSD that caused a voltage surge would this not work its way back up the power line, (via the other two SSD’s) before it could trip out the PSU? Would that not explain why the PSU tripped out, but only after damage occured on all three SSD’s connected by the same power line?