MacPro keeps killing hard drives!

Hi all,
I had a search on here beforehand to see if anyone else has had this issue. I couldn't find a close match, but my apologies if I missed one.
I have an early model Mac Pro (v1.1) and last week the original hard drive (a good 6 years old) suddenly died. It was without any warning as previously the computer had been working fine. The only problem I noticed was immediately before the drive died, Firefox locked up my Mac to the point where I had to do a hard reset. When I turned the Mac back on, it would hang at the Blue screen with a spinning beachball.
I booted from the Snow Leopard install disk and did a HDD repair, where I learnt the drive was dead.
Promptly I bought a brand spanking new WD 1TB HDD, and reinstalled everything. I then tried to use a data recovery app (Disk Driller) to copy what it could off the old HDD, which was running off one of the internal SATA conenctions. This seemed to cause problems again, locking up the computer and so forth, to the point where again I had to reinstall Snow Leopard.
Now, I have the original dead 250gb HDD in an external case, attempting a restore by backing it up as a DMG to the new HDD. AGAIN, this froze over night while it was doing it's thing. Ordinarily I'd give up, but there was 30gb of photos on this drive as well as old work I wanted to keep.
SO: Now it appears my new HDD is dead.
I don't know that I've explained this very well, but here's my question. Is it possible there is something in my MacPro (software -- I'm looking at you Disk Driller!) or otherwise that is killing my HDDs?
The first HDD was getting on, so I can see how that could have died (although, it was suspiciously sudden). However, my new HDD is now only FOUR DAYS OLD and when I run Disk Utility from my install disk, it warns that the HDD has failed and to back up what I can.
Appreciate any help I can get!
Dave

AHT does not necessarily mean that a test with no error reported is a clean bill of health.
If you have a system drive that is corrupted directory it WILL or can block booting - from any device, even from DVDs.
External is fine, turn it on after boot. Turn it on after Disk Warrior is running.
And my lecture point: always have bootable backup clones and even if it was owrking it was old slow and out of warranty and your new WD Black 1TB is much faster. But then buy a data drive, one for backup too.
You should never need to reinstall an OS other than when a new OS to start clean (and use Setup Assist to import your old apps).
So play with just the new drive and leave the other to rest.
Do NOT copy data or recvover to your good drive.
Need a recovery drive for that.
you don't need to use a sparse disk image.
Most people try Data Rescue 3 demo to see if it will read and chance to recovery before buying $99.
Use Carbon Copy Cloner to make copies of your drives and be able to boot from.
http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-HowToClone-backup.html

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Anonymous UUID:                    5F83EDE6-4363-EDBF-45F9-8948E3BF36C5
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0xffffff81fb0b3bd0 : 0xffffff802b05e254
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0xffffff81fb0b3d20 : 0xffffff802b452552
0xffffff81fb0b3d50 : 0xffffff7face56e47
0xffffff81fb0b3d70 : 0xffffff7face57aea
0xffffff81fb0b3db0 : 0xffffff7face53546
0xffffff81fb0b3de0 : 0xffffff7face583e9
0xffffff81fb0b3e10 : 0xffffff7faba822a4
0xffffff81fb0b3e30 : 0xffffff7faba82237
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0xffffff81fb0b3e90 : 0xffffff7face5713c
0xffffff81fb0b3ed0 : 0xffffff7face55951
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0xffffff81fb0b3f30 : 0xffffff802b4452aa
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com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform          1.7
com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily          2.7.3
com.apple.iokit.IOACPIFamily          1.4
com.apple.kec.corecrypto          1.0
Model: MacBookPro8,2, BootROM MBP81.0047.B27, 4 processors, Intel Core i7, 2.4 GHz, 16 GB, SMC 1.69f4
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000, Intel HD Graphics 3000, Built-In, 512 MB
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6770M, AMD Radeon HD 6770M, PCIe, 1024 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x04CD, 0x46412D3133333343392D3847535100000020
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 8 GB, DDR3, 1333 MHz, 0x04CD, 0x46412D3133333343392D3847535100000020
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xD6), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.16)
Bluetooth: Version 4.1.3f3 11349, 2 service, 18 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Wi-Fi, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: TOSHIBA MK7559GSXF, 750.16 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in), apple_vendor_id, 0x8509, 0xfa200000 / 3
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfa100000 / 2
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, apple_vendor_id, 0x0252, 0xfa120000 / 5
USB Device: BRCM2070 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0xfa110000 / 4
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, apple_vendor_id, 0x821a, 0xfa113000 / 8
USB Device: hub_device, 0x0424 (SMSC), 0x2513, 0xfd100000 / 2
USB Device: IR Receiver, apple_vendor_id, 0x8242, 0xfd110000 / 3

Hi folks
I have had another crash....i was wondering if someone would be kind enough to see if they cam make any suggestions on what it may be?
Fri Apr 19 12:35:39 2013
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff800a4b7e95): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f8c252ca6, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x0000000080010033, CR2: 0x0000000000000068, CR3: 0x000000002f3c504a, CR4: 0x00000000000606e0
RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0xffffff8047941400, RCX: 0x0000000000000001, RDX: 0x0000000000000000
RSP: 0xffffff81da5a39b0, RBP: 0xffffff81da5a39e0, RSI: 0xffffff802c3efa00, RDI: 0xffffff8047941400
R8: 0xffffff80444cef00, R9: 0xffffff8209e10000, R10: 0x0000000000000001, R11: 0x0000000000000000
R12: 0x0000000000000000, R13: 0xffffff7f8c64f7d0, R14: 0xffffff802c3efa00, R15: 0xffffff8047941400
RFL: 0x0000000000010246, RIP: 0xffffff7f8c252ca6, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Fault CR2: 0x0000000000000068, Error code: 0x0000000000000002, Fault CPU: 0x0
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81da5a3650 : 0xffffff800a41d626
0xffffff81da5a36c0 : 0xffffff800a4b7e95
0xffffff81da5a3890 : 0xffffff800a4cd4dd
0xffffff81da5a38b0 : 0xffffff7f8c252ca6
0xffffff81da5a39e0 : 0xffffff7f8c2a9fbc
0xffffff81da5a3a10 : 0xffffff7f8c266f2f
0xffffff81da5a3a40 : 0xffffff7f8c267efd
0xffffff81da5a3a70 : 0xffffff7f8c2d1230
0xffffff81da5a3ab0 : 0xffffff7f8c26803a
0xffffff81da5a3ae0 : 0xffffff7f8c25ad48
0xffffff81da5a3b40 : 0xffffff7f8c266990
0xffffff81da5a3ba0 : 0xffffff800a865ab3
0xffffff81da5a3bc0 : 0xffffff800a86668d
0xffffff81da5a3c20 : 0xffffff800a86408f
0xffffff81da5a3d70 : 0xffffff800a4984a1
0xffffff81da5a3e80 : 0xffffff800a420aed
0xffffff81da5a3eb0 : 0xffffff800a410448
0xffffff81da5a3f00 : 0xffffff800a41961b
0xffffff81da5a3f70 : 0xffffff800a4a5dd6
0xffffff81da5a3fb0 : 0xffffff800a4cdd43
      Kernel Extensions in backtrace:
         com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily(30.14)[8CAD17E4-8359-3015-BCFC-F1964357CBFE ]@0xffffff7f8c244000->0xffffff7f8c28efff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffff ff7f8aa66000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.7)[38C214C0-83C8-3594-8A4C-DC6AC3FEC163]@0xff ffff7f8afbf000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[74E3E50F-E50A-3073-8C96-06F854292A91]@0 xffffff7f8af7c000
         com.apple.AMDRadeonAccelerator(1.0.6)[1DDF899D-B472-36DF-A08D-365D3221F6CE]@0xf fffff7f8c29a000->0xffffff7f8c650fff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOAcceleratorFamily(30.14)[8CAD17E4-8359-3015-BCFC-F1964357CBFE ]@0xffffff7f8c244000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.7.3)[1D668879-BEF8-3C58-ABFE-FAC6B3E9A292]@0xffff ff7f8aa66000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.3.7)[38C214C0-83C8-3594-8A4C-DC6AC3FEC163]@0xff ffff7f8afbf000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.3.7)[74E3E50F-E50A-3073-8C96-06F854292A91]@0 xffffff7f8af7c000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WebProcess
Mac OS version:
12D78
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 12.3.0: Sun Jan 6 22:37:10 PST 2013; root:xnu-2050.22.13~1/RELEASE_X86_64
Kernel UUID: 3EB7D8A7-C2D3-32EC-80F4-AB37D61492C6
Kernel slide:     0x000000000a200000
Kernel text base: 0xffffff800a400000
System model name: MacBookPro8,2 (Mac-94245A3940C91C80)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 36154562884826
last loaded kext at 24168199608710: jp.co.yamaha.driver.YamahaSteinbergUSBAudio          1.6.4f1 (addr 0xffffff7f8c869000, size 200704)
last unloaded kext at 25813318732584: jp.co.yamaha.driver.YamahaSteinbergUSBAudio          1.6.4f1 (addr 0xffffff7f8c869000, size 98304)
loaded kexts:
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com.vmware.kext.vmioplug          3.0.0
com.vmware.kext.vmci          3.0.0
com.vmware.kext.vmx86          3.0.0
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com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC          1.60
com.apple.driver.AGPM          100.12.87
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver          122
com.apple.iokit.IOUserEthernet          1.0.0d1
com.apple.filesystems.autofs          3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA          2.3.7fc4
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager          4.1.3f3
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver          2.3.7fc4
com.apple.iokit.BroadcomBluetoothHCIControllerUSBTransport          4.1.3f3
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor          3.0.3d1
com.apple.driver.AppleSMCLMU          2.0.3d0
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X          7.0.0
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin          1.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC          1.6.0
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com.apple.driver.AppleMCCSControl          1.1.11
com.apple.kext.AMDFramebuffer          8.1.0
com.apple.AMDRadeonAccelerator          1.0.6
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHD3000Graphics          8.1.0
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelSNBGraphicsFB          8.1.0
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Projector killed hard drive under newly installed yosemite??

hey folks!
i connected my macbook pro (mid 2012, non-retina) to a projector today and as i did that everything froze. i disconnected the projector, but no change. i forced a reboot and got a light grey screen with a blinking folder and question mark. it turns out my internal hard drive is dead.
i updated to yosemite last week and have had smaller issus since then when connecting to a projector (black space where the keynote window was before which only vanished with a reboot).
can anyone tell me, whether my hard drive dying has anything to do with the update to yosemite (my warranty ran out 2 weeks ago)? anyone with similar problems?
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minopilus wrote:
can anyone tell me, whether my hard drive dying has anything to do with the update to yosemite (my warranty ran out 2 weeks ago)?
I think it is very unlikely that the two are connected.
It is more likely (though not certain) that something weird happened when plugged into the projector. Like a bad cable or a bad port that maybe allowed some kind of power surge back into the motherboard that might have affected the hard drive. But let me emphasize...this is a very unusual problem that should not have happened. Thousands of Mac laptops are plugged into projectors every single day in corporations and schools and universities. It is not a problem that should be expected to happen.
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I don't know what the real cause was, but chances are it was a fluke. One possibility: The hard drive was already having undiagnosed problems, and this just pushed it over the edge.

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