Broken Hard Drive - Time for new MoBo?

[Limited]

Okay, I feel like I'm dying here, no computer, no xbox, no laptop, I actually bought a kite to help cure my boredom.

So my hard drive failed again. got so annoyed with having to reinstall (did about 10 times in 1 week) I gave up and took it to a repair shop. They spent a while running diagnostic stuff blah, they agree hard drive is broken.

So I am sending, the replacement hard drive, that WD sent me, to replace my other broken drive, back to WD. This now makes me beg the question, do I just have really bad luck (this is now the 4th item of this PC I've had to return, only bought the parts in December), or is my PC actually breaking the hard drives.

So, do I shell out $120, to buy a new motherboard, this one (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142585) or not. I currently have an Intel Desktop Board DG41RQ, which has 1 PCI x16 slot for graphics card, it cannot do SLI. And it only has 2 RAM slots (4GB max), whereas the new one has more PCI slots, another PCI x16 slot, and has 4 RAM slots (8GB max). Therefore I could in the future expand the spec on my pc.

So, at the moment there are 3 possibilities, my power supply is fucking up my hard drive, my motherboard is messing up my hard drive, or my hard drive just failed because it was faulty.

So I'm in a predicament, do I purchase a new ASUS mobo, or keep the Intel one I have?

[Cojafoji]

If you're going to buy anything, buy a new PSU. There's a good chance that's what's fucking you if it's not a double faulty hard drive. Though if it was the psu, it could have damaged a whole host of things, which in turn could further damage any NEW parts you might purchase. Bite ze bullet and buy a new PSU.

[Limited]

I see what you mean about the PSU, although I would rather not because a new one doesnt really help improve the overall system (newer mobo has upgrade abilities).

Every part is within warranty, apart from the motherboard, this is one that was fitted by a repair firm. So if I can find a way of proving its the PSU faulty, I can RMA it.

Temporary fix, I've installed my old seagate 80GB hard drive, from my old XP built, wiped it and put Windows 7 on. The drive is probably like 3 years old, but I'm hoping it will last out a bit, this is to test if my pc breaks it, however its an IDE drive, my 1TB broken hard drive is SATA =\.

[Dwood]

1 TB hdd I heard were more fragile than the slower and less-capacity older hard-drives... keep reporting back though.

[Inferno]

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Yeah. I have a 120gb harddrive from like 8 years ago that I'm still using to this day.

[Amit]

Buying a new PSU will do nothing for you, especially since it's a great PSU he's got. I use it in my own computer. A faulty PSU would fuck up more than just the HDD.

I suggest you stop wasting time with RMAing shit and to go out and actually buy a new Hard Drive. That will solve your problems. You can't trust anything customer support will send you. If the new drive breaks, then you truly have bad luck.

I still use a 120GB Samsung drive from 8 years ago and that shit endures some drive error abuse and keeps running.

[Limited]

Originally I had a 500GB SATA drive, which completely broke and I returned it about a month ago. WD sent me back a 1TB drive, not that I'm complaining, I'm hoping if I send the 1TB back I get a 2TB :D

Ive got a 20GB hard drive from 2000, still works like a charm, but completely useless now, as Windows 7 takes like 16 gigs, my D drive is IDE, and its brought me through hell and highwater, thats where my backups are so at least I don't lose anything important.

I'd keep my 500 and 80GB IDE drives on, yet the cable is real short and I cant fit them in the case because the graphics card is hogging all the space, right now they are literally hanging out the side, this is only a temp setup, to see if the hard drive breaks (if it does, I'm blaming mobo).

I have 4 SATA slots, and one IDE cable (which has master/slave), so I could have 3 SATA hard drives, SATA DVD Drive and 2 IDE ones, in theory?

[CrAsHOvErRide]

Just go RAID to be on the secure side.