UPDATE: the problem was that my case is weird and I didn't want to go through the hassle of screwing in all the HDD mounting screws, which I think caused some kind of short or magnetic weirdness that caused the drive to freak out, just a coincidence that it happened with the new PSU. I learned that my drive touching any part of my case metal-on-metal caused the drive to freak out and my boot to hang, so I removed the normal drive mounting bay and put a piece of cardboard between the drive and the metal parts of the chassis, this solved the problem and now my computer boots faster than ever. Thanks for your help everyone.
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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Have you checked the SMART data on either drive yet?
Thank you for the reply, I figured out the problem had nothing to do with anything, and the actual problem was a combination of both my laziness and HDD weirdness. See my other comment that I am writing right now
hah adding that to the playbook good investigating
I’m not sure what could’ve possibly been shorting but it works now so calling it good ‘nuff
This is the same problem with two decently new HDDs, would they really be failing this soon?
And those same drives work just fine on a different machine