>Watching a movie
>mpv sudennly closes
>Turn around
>PC IS ON FUCKING FIRE
How the hell do a harddrive suddenly go in flames? It's the drive in the pic.
Watching a movie
Angel Rodriguez
Benjamin Morris
Because it's seagate
Nolan Jones
Post a pic of it
Joseph Ramirez
VLC doesn't have this problem
Jace White
pic or it didnt happen
Jace Butler
Were you using a molex-SATA adapter?
Eli Smith
do you actually have it mounted or lying on the bottom of your case / suspended in mid-air?
Jaxon Rodriguez
Wyatt Gray
that would be your old shitty powerstrip.
Landon Lopez
>Google image
Colton Thomas
Here it is.
Anthony Foster
>Jan 03
Lucas Clark
holy shit haha
Isaac Phillips
>Seagate instead of Toshiba
Oliver Myers
>yet another victim of the crappy chinese molex to sata power adapter
LMAO
t. my bentium 4 almost burned my whole house down because of that (while it continued to run just fine, and still does run fine)
Connor Butler
Fpbp.
Ian Davis
Defective cable, mate
Aaron Russell
That's probably more of a short circuit burnt beause you use a cheap shitty psu
Easton Flores
Aiden Anderson
yep that's the cables fault, don't use molded sata power connectors but crimped ones.
Michael Mitchell
So I shouldn't use those adapter cabels at all then? They came with my PC, but the fire with it I guess.
It's Corsair RM 850.
Is it really that bad?
Kayden Richardson
thats fucked user, thanks for making me paranoid about my cables
Thomas Long
Nope, that's a good psu, maybe the cable management wasn't good enough and the cable dragged inside the case making it get a little loose thus the contacts touch with each other starting the burning
Nicholas Collins
>So I shouldn't use those adapter cabels at all then?
No, 6 to 8 pin adaptors don't work.
Angel White
>seagate catches fire
>wd dies day after warranty ends
>hitachi and samsung apparently lives fucking forever
Levi Garcia
>So I shouldn't use those adapter cabels at all then?
hell no, unless you cant avoid it. ditch any that are a completely closed plastic molding around the cables on the sata end and get some that look like pic related instead
Nathan Thompson
>Screwed mine into the mounting slot so it just kind of hangs there in bay
What am I doing wrong?
Lucas Cook
>let the PC run 24/7
>even when I'm asleep or out of the house
Bad idea?
Caleb Murphy
yeah, for your electricity bill
Jaxson Rogers
That was what I was using.
Brody Reed
wrong, visit your nearest optometrist
Aiden Turner
>Brag about uptime on Jow Forums
>Or be safe from PC burning down your face
Tough choice desu.
Zachary Thompson
Seagate more like Hellgate
Nathaniel Turner
Molex to SATA, lose your data
Juan Diaz
>Nvidia HDD
retard
Tyler Johnson
>that /v/irgin who uses the cheapest PSU he can find
It doesn't pay to be a cheapskate.
Owen Myers
Cheap SATA adapters have a very high chance of arcing between wires and going up in flames. If you absolutely have to do molex to SATA, buy one with a crimped SATA connection
Anyway, doesn't the RM 850 come with SATA power anyway? Seriously how do you fuck this up so bad
Luke Hernandez
kek
Noah Reed
this
Connor Foster
underrated post
Xavier Rivera
your psu comes with the correct cable. use it.
Carter Wright
How do you pronounce "SATA"? It doesn't really rhyme with "data" in my head (just the last syllable obviously).
Leo Rogers
Satan without the "n".
Alexander Sanchez
You can just put it to sleep. Although my Windows machine fails to fall asleep every so often and it's fucking annoying.
Nicholas Russell
>2018
>still buying Seagate
Will you retards ever learn?
Brandon Williams
Sah-ta
Every other pronunciation is retarded. Especially if you're American and call it Sayda.
Xavier Thomas
say-da
Anthony Cox
Spot the burgerlander