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

[ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)]

On Sun December 6 2009, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Over the last 10 years I have seen more and more system failures related to
> crappy power supplies. I am beginning to wonder if a crisis is brewing
> between production cost and quality. Power supplies are tasked with more
> capabilities yet have declined in cost for power output (I think) even
> faster than motherboards, ram and cpu's.? maybe we need some opensource
> designs out there to evaluate...

I will add that I also had a similar issue a while back. I bought a small 
CHEAP Frye's special CPU a few years ago, to be used as a test server. IT 
didn't stay up all the time, and I only used it to test a new installation. I 
know it was less than 2 years old when the power supply went out. I had the 
very same problem where it wouldn't boot, no BIOS or anything, until I 
unplugged the HD...

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