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Hello,

like year ago i bought some hw upgrades along with an asus sata dvd burner, week after the drive stopped working as in not getting powered at all, not ejecting, led not working. Unrecognized in bios, completely dead. That pc was a64 4400+, m2n-e, 2gig, 8600gt, 400w psu. Tried on other pc, nothing. So i sent it back at that time and got my money back.

Now several days ago i bought alot of upgrades and basicly built new pc and bought a new dvd burner few days after again, LG this time. After about a week, it died the same way as the previous one on previous pc. Not responding, led not working, wont eject, bios wont detect. I noticed the drive doing some high pitch whistle (really high frequency noise something like vgas do but louder) from time to time when it was running at max speed the last time i was installing OS from it, but the dvd inside was fine, there was no physical damage and it installed fine, next day it was just dead.

Any idea what could be causing this? All hardware changed since the old pc, just one thing that i know i did same like last time, is that i put my two hdd's on top of the drive with like two wooden planks in between each so air could flow there, because of those theres no pressure being applied on the center of the drive cause the planks go over the edges. Yes im not using a case, but everything is perfectly isolated, no short circuit danger etc, perfect cooling, no "breathing holes" on the drives are blocked either. Also i never plugged / unplugged the drive power/sata with the pc running. Could it be the hdd being that close causing this? the gap between them is like 1-2cm... Cant think of any other reason, i dont think its just coincidence that these two drives died the completely same way after cca week of using them on two completely different pcs.

If it helps the new pc is q6600@3.6ghz, 2gb 6-6-6-18 ddr3, p5e64 evo 1600mhz, 4870, 750w corsair. 2sata hdds.

Thanks in advance for any shared ideas