Anatomy of a OCZ SSD smoked drive.

[Computurd]

Well at this point i think i will see what they say tomorrow.

i will tackle a few things here though...

Just accept that the drives are bad and move on.

thank you for the wonderful advice. funny thing, ive already come to the conclusion that they were bad all on my own, just by looking at THE BIG BLACK SCORCHING ON THE PCB!
but thank you for the reminder

I have taken the luxury of ordering your model power supply on ebay. I'm gonna hook up my old POC SSD to it with the plug backwards JUST to see what happens. If it doesn't die from that, I'll be more than happy to hook up 12v to the 5v to see what happens. You might not have plugged it in backwards, but I'll get a good amount of closure proving that it DOES break the drives.

well josh that is entertaining. you are buying a used PSU? wouldn't that be a bad way to start a test, using your 'control' for this experiment as a used piece of equipment you are buying off Ebay, of all godforsaken places to roll the dice with computer hardware. ROFL! well, so we start the test on a bad footing, but lets screw it up even more by testing based on bad premise! seriously john, no one is arguing whether or not it is possible if it would fry the components if wired backwards. i dont recall seeing anyone one of us "people with no education or experience with printed circuits and a bunch of home-bound geeks who think they know more than they do" saying it wouldnt fry if hooked up backwards. also, no one has said that hooking 12v to a 5v will not fry it! of course it will! you have missed the thrust of this thread terribly josh. seriously i am beginning to wonder about you....not one individual has stated that plugging it in backwards will not fry it. i look forward to this colossal waste of money and time with baited breath, of that i assure you, as the joke is on you, sir. please make a video of this for our enjoyment! i promise to link it in my sig!
i think you have read so much about this PSU in your research here that you are actually very impressed with it and want one. it is just the most powerful beast on the planet

And someone else figure out the wonderful advantages of having "proprietary" plugs. Anyone else ever figure out that those fantastic modular plugs that we all use are NOT per any specification other than those the power supply manufacturer invented on the spot?

oh my. is it because they do not want it to fit in other companies PSU's, for safetys sake?

SS definitely won't go dropping cash that's more than 5x the cost of their PSU just to replace some components

power supply cost 400 bucks. if you catch a sale the vertex drives that got smoked cost 79 bucks each. do the math! roughly half the cost of the device nowhere 5x!

I've got a new PSU in the mail, and I plan to cook me an SSD just like the OP.

rofl. you think you are proving something here! thats rich! i have a rosewill , a PC&P, a st1200 and st1500, an antec, and two no-name 200W psu, all in this very room with me that i could use to fry an ssd if i intended to do so intentionally~ ANY psu can fry one provided you are trying to do it.
seriously Josh, i cant believe that first you "recuse" yourself from this thread, them come back blasting with this ridiculous "i bought a psu and under controlled circumstances intended for failure, i intend to make a device fail!" argument.
seriously i am trying to not break the rules of this forum, as it is my home but you must stop for the sake of us all!