Can a Motherboard damage a hard drive?
If your motherboard is having voltage regulation problems, it’s perfectly possible that it is frying drive interfaces. It’s also possible your PSU (power supply) is the common cause of your troubles, as it directly provides power to your drive. It’s also possible that you have a “hot spot” in your case, due to poor airflow, and your drives are being “cooked” by high temperatures. I’ve seen this several times in homebrew computers where people put in big case fans, and big CPU coolers, but actually starved the case for airflow in several areas, including producing low pressure areas in the disk cage. In conjunction with disk quieting modifications like wrapping the disk drives in rubber insulators, or putting damping plates above and below the drives, the drive environments can get to be 40 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit above ambient temperature. If you can, check your disk operating temperatures with a thermometer, or a software utility like SpeedFan, before you get too carried away with t
