[ale] two sata drives fail at the same time?

[charriglists at bellsouth.net (Calvin Harrigan)]

Geoffrey wrote:
> So, what are the chances that two different sata drives, same 
> manufacturer (wd), that were purchased at different times, would fail at 
> exactly the same time?
>
> Is it possible for a drive failure to cause another to fail?  I'm 
> grasping, but I just can see this happening.
>
> They were connected to an interface card, so I removed it and connected 
> them to the onboard interface, no go.  both drives appear to exhibit low 
> clicking sounds.
>
> This pretty much sucks.
>
> This system sits behind a decent ups/surge protector, no problems with 
> any other hardware and no recent electrical issues known.
>
>
>   
Bad power supply/bad 12v rail/bad connection?  Using any molex
splitters/converters?