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Originally Posted by KimJI
You could have a power problem. Disks are touchy about power spikes and fluctuations. Get small UPS and hook your PC up to that.
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Like KimJI said a small UPS couldn't hurt. If it is spikes that should solve the problem.
Excellent advice given by several but considering the number of drives that have failed on you I would also look at power issues. Spikes are not good but that is not the only side of power issues. Low voltage can kill drives also and can cause other issues as well. Check the power at the outlet. If it is below 110v then it needs addressed. Your utility company should be happy to take a look if that is the case. Check the voltage at the connection for your hard drives, the low voltage side of things. If it is low and line voltage is good then look at your power supply. Some desktop systems come with power supplies that are not large enough to handle much additional hardware. Even when checking the voltage at the HD connector you may not see an issue if the machine is running with no loads, so try to do it where you can run the machine and make it work along with any thing you sometimes connect.
Keep in mind when it comes to power inside your office or home it could also be something else that only runs some of the time. Example running your washer and dryer while the AC is working big time can lower the voltage you have available. Now in general terms they are not on the same circuit within your house but in terms of the circuit feeding your house it does matter. Same is true anywhere else, the higher the loads on the electrical system the lower the available voltage can be if it was not designed for the loads.
Hard drives do fail, fact of life, however something else I think is causing the problem in your case and at very least worth looking at, while drives fail rare that so many fail on the same person on the same machine. Personally I am still a SCSI drive person, faster and more stable.
PLEASE be very careful working on your system or anything electrical. More people die each year from relatively low voltage (120v) than higher voltages.
Good Luck