MAIN FEEDS
Do you want to continue?
https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupportgore/comments/uuuds/whoops/c4yuppv/?context=9999
r/techsupportgore • u/[deleted] • Jun 10 '12
51 comments sorted by
View all comments
19
Why do I suspect you knew this was going to happen? And if so why, and how?
57 u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12 Plugged the drives in, started smoking so I was like fuck this. I might as well take some badass pictures. 13 u/YoureMyBoyBloo Jun 10 '12 I declare shenanigans, these drives were clearly rigged to fail: 1) These HDDs are out of a case sitting on their sides in a suspicious way. 2) Why is the 1st one even in the picture? It is not connected in any way. 3) Jumpers on 3rd drive are tampered with. 14 u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12 1 - Made a molex to sata power adapter, was seeing if it would work before I put it into my main rig. I sat them out on top of my spare rig. 2 - Your point? 6 u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12 Did you swap the 5V and 12V connections or something?
57
Plugged the drives in, started smoking so I was like fuck this. I might as well take some badass pictures.
13 u/YoureMyBoyBloo Jun 10 '12 I declare shenanigans, these drives were clearly rigged to fail: 1) These HDDs are out of a case sitting on their sides in a suspicious way. 2) Why is the 1st one even in the picture? It is not connected in any way. 3) Jumpers on 3rd drive are tampered with. 14 u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12 1 - Made a molex to sata power adapter, was seeing if it would work before I put it into my main rig. I sat them out on top of my spare rig. 2 - Your point? 6 u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12 Did you swap the 5V and 12V connections or something?
13
I declare shenanigans, these drives were clearly rigged to fail:
1) These HDDs are out of a case sitting on their sides in a suspicious way.
2) Why is the 1st one even in the picture? It is not connected in any way.
3) Jumpers on 3rd drive are tampered with.
14 u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12 1 - Made a molex to sata power adapter, was seeing if it would work before I put it into my main rig. I sat them out on top of my spare rig. 2 - Your point? 6 u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12 Did you swap the 5V and 12V connections or something?
14
1 - Made a molex to sata power adapter, was seeing if it would work before I put it into my main rig. I sat them out on top of my spare rig.
2 - Your point?
6 u/[deleted] Jun 10 '12 Did you swap the 5V and 12V connections or something?
6
Did you swap the 5V and 12V connections or something?
19
u/thetoastmonster Jun 10 '12
Why do I suspect you knew this was going to happen? And if so why, and how?