Hard Drive of DOOM!

My partner recorded this at work. A client brought in their computer cause it wouldn't boot. When he removed the drive and connected it to be scanned he noticed that it started to smoke and glow red hot. It was also stinky..

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[v16050118130114]

All electronic devices work on the same principle... they have magic smoke in them.

If they get damaged or you apply too much voltage to them, this lets out the magic smoke, and they stop working.

[cheetawolf]

EPIC FORMAT :P

[jonvincent12]

@v16050118130114 GENIUS!

[RCPhilNX]

smell it!

[Unasigad]

Thats exactly what once happened to me! I had an IBM hard drive and I noticed that the controller chip was getting very hot and one day this is what happened!

[SEANYBOY9500]

could be a maxtor?

[mastergx1]

thats a short on the board

[warmage247]

Its a maxtor, haha I had same problem they suck ass glad seagate brought them out

[Neoplan6o]

That happened to one of my old sony floppy drives! :o

[jamesb1221222]

Lol, that meant that the motor's speed controller was under a load (hence the burning) and it couldnt get the disk spinning. the motor probably went.

[datawraith3080]

i once had a free wdc 40 gb... labeled "flaky" by a tech.... it was connected, threw sparks upon power up, and took out another hard drive

[the731272]

ya know maxtor is undoubtedly the worst type of hard disk ever made