Can power problems cause a HDD to fail?

[ElectroBlaster]

Yeah ive some post regard this jumper setting, there is no jumper listed in the manual, and i cannot see any spare jumpers positioned close to the connectors on the motherboard. Maybe my jumper s already in place, but being so far away from home, can i risk it :/

I read recently the Seagate has bought Maxtor, wouldn't that Maxtor drives now have Seagate components?

I have just received my rma'd maxtor 250gb sata drive from seagate, its another maxtor drive

I would assume seagate will continue using maxtor parts for a while and slowly phase them out, or better still pump some seagate goodness into them so they are more reliable lol

 

[sWiZzLe]

Helloooo,

Back again.... and slightly confused

For the last week my hdd hasn't made a sound. I did try to use Spinrite without much luck. Yesterday i downloaded a trial of TuneUp Utils 2007 and was very happy to see that they have added a Disk Doctor to their software! <-- anyone know how good this is?

When i did a thorough scan of the drive, although it found errors, i didn't hear a single noise from it

Oh i also installed the new 300W SilentX psu yesterday and now my monitor has stopped changing colour by itself

Got the Seagate aswell, but havent had a chance to try it

Could the drive have fixed it self or something?