Anatomy of a OCZ SSD smoked drive.

[Computurd]

Since his cables didn't melt off their insulation it's pretty reasonable to say that you did NOT hit the overcurrent protection limit either.

14 AWG cable would be able to take the surge current for a short period (I.e. The length of time it takes for the OCP to kick in.) without melting its insulation. Therefore I don't think that shows that an OC condition didn't happen.
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. I dismissed the notion of the grounds being connected because you do NOT want regular current flow through the ground of the SATA cable.

you are missing a very important part of this here: i could care less about that. i am saying "you cant dismiss anything" under conditions of it being shorted to the point of warping, components frying out, etc, anything can happen. of course you do not want regular current to go through the ground. we arent talking about what we WANT, we are talking about what we GOT. you siderant on faraday cages is a nice distraction though does nothing to further your argument though. nice filler.

Is it likely that 3 drives all had manufacturing defects that all decided to show themselves all at the same time? Heck no

not saying they all had defects, the thrust of my argument is that one of the devices caused some sort of overvoltage, causing the others to pop.

I'm sure at this point you ARE now checking to see if you have 1 rail or multiple. I'll tell you..

it is apparent here that you think that i am not very bright. LOL i have had so many PSU over the years, and i could tell you how many rails on ALL of them. gimme some credit here....i research EVERY purchase i make. you are seriously off topic with this...i dont need a primer on the difference between single and multi rails, none of us do. at what point did you think that i went out and bought a 1500 WATT PSU and didnt know what i was doing? this isnt a peice of equipment some ten year old kid goes and blows four hundred bucks on well, at least he shouldnt....

your background i would consider as relevant, if it involved computer equipment. I would not go to a lineman on a pole and hand him my psu and ask him what the hell happened. different fields of specialty there. none of your background has to do with PCB, SSD design, or PSU design, maintenance. you do sound like a smart guy and all, just not in this field

there is no need to lock any thread. there have been no insults that i am aware of, maybe not people playing very nice, but there is going to be some hard feelings probably if you tell someone they fried their own gear repetitively, when in fact, they havent! im not here to argue with you, this is supposed to be about my issue here. tbh it does make one a little rankled when they have dealt with computers, and built them, since the early 90's, yet you come in and tell them that it is user error, that they have fried their equipment, by connecting something improperly, that is impossible to do! LOL i make stupid mistakes all the time, but i find that tantamount to calling me mentally retarded after i have been building computers for 18 years!
no hard feelings though please dont attempt to get my thread locked, i am looking for resolution to this issue here.