Quentin Hartman wrote:
If it doesn't work in a known good USB enclosure, it's almost
definitely two bad drives. Id' definitely RMA it if it's under
warranty. The question then becomes, why did they fail? Maybe you just
got unlucky, that's certainly not unheard of. Maybe your friend
mistreats his equipment (unintentionally or not) and he killed them.
Maybe the Dell has a design flaw and cooked the drives. Maybe your
friend likes to use his laptop in bed or on the couch, and unwittingly
sets it on a soft surface that blocks a cooling vent, and cooked the
drives.
Along the same vein, check and make sure the cooling fans are spinning
and the heat sinks are jammed full of futz. If they are then you can bet
your HDD won't last long.
-G
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