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hard drive enclosure problem?

by jaason63 Dec 9, 2009 3:47AM PST

I bought a Rocketfish external hard drive enclosure at Best Buy for a brand new sata 2.5" drive. It installed and worked fine for about 3 months and then the hard drive died on me. No BSOD, it just gave me a black screen when I tried to start the computer. It also made some scraping noises intermittently. I sent it back and received a new drive in the mail. When I installed the new drive in the enclosure, it made some loud, high pitched whirring sounds when I plugged it in via usb. I unplugged and plugged it back in. No noises but the external drive did not show in My Computer as it had when I first installed it. I checked all the settings in device manager, etc. I then took the good drive (2 years old) out of the computer and put it into the enclosure and tried to boot from the external drive. I got the BSOD and a notice that there was a major hard drive malfunction. I'm now unable to access that hard drive at all (but I've read up on possible ways to retrieve my data). I was able to install Windows on the new 250gb hd but I am now thinking that perhaps the drive enclosure could be causing the hard drives to fail. Does this sound feasible? It was only used for about 3 months, no bumps/drops/ etc. I'm afraid to put any drive back into the enclosure. I might mention that the enclosure is now out of warranty.
Anyone have any thoughts/suggestions? Thanks.