Grounding unmounted HD?

Mercury · Post by **Mercury** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 1:59 pm

Hi, I recently unmount my hard-drive and I've put it on a carpet+rubber (the HD is in contact only with the rubber) piece on the bottom of my case. Some people (including an electrician) are telling me that I must ground my HD, otherwise, it might be risky? What do you think?

I find it odd, since a regular molex carries 2 grounds...

Katana Man · Post by **Katana Man** » Wed Mar 26, 2003 2:28 pm

Yeah, they are smokin. You're grounded.

Mercury · Post by **Mercury** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 3:18 pm

I would appreciate a more explicit answer.

miker · Post by **miker** » Thu Mar 27, 2003 5:47 pm

I would disagree that the drive is grounded just from the power source.

When I installed my cuda in a No-Vibes, my PC started suddenly reacting to static electricity in the room very poorly. It got to the point that when my cat walked by the PC, the speakers would pop loudly and then the PC would reboot. I manually grounded the drive using a little piece of wire, and the problem disappeared.

Mercury · Post by **Mercury** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 7:23 am

Ok, thanks, I'll do it just to be sure, since it mustn't add any noise to the system.

GamingGod · Post by **GamingGod** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 7:26 am

I also heard that some Ibm drives should not be grounded. But ive also heard that they had a high death ratio because they were not properly grounded.

jinu117 · Post by **jinu117** » Fri Mar 28, 2003 9:33 am

GamingGod wrote:I also heard that some Ibm drives should not be grounded. But ive also heard that they had a high death ratio because they were not properly grounded.

Those are good old 75gxp age. Newer drives don't have this problem AFAIK

edwardhuggett · Post by **edwardhuggett** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:10 am

Whoops .......

Riffer · Post by **Riffer** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 3:55 am

Better safe than sorry I suppose.

You could just run a bit of patch wire from the drive to the case.