war story (spoiler: dying power supply takes disk drive with it)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 11:16:58PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> When in doubt, cheap out.  I jumped at an apparently OK but
> cheap-this-week power supply:
> <http://ncix.com/products/index.php?sku=54842&vpn=CMPSU-430CX&manufacture=Corsair&promoid=1310>

That's a really bad methodology.  A bad power supply will quite literally
kill the other components in your machine.

Also a bad power supply can make your system unstable and cause lots of
unexplained crashes.  I have seen that a number of times.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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