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Rant: My power supply died mid-data recovery and lost the whole drive
Had a client's old HDD hooked up to my bench test rig last Thursday, pulling files off bit by bit. Power supply popped like a firecracker, and when I booted it back up with a new one, the drive was totally dead. Now I always plug a UPS between the drive and the PSU during recoveries. Anyone else had a power failure trash a recovery job?
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rileyb611mo agoTop Commenter
Yeah, well @elliot_taylor maybe he just had bad luck with a power supply that went pop.
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elliot_taylor1mo ago
Nah, that sounds less like bad hardware and more like you skipped basic checks before hooking up a failing drive. A good PSU doesn't just die mid-job unless you ignored warning signs.
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