OFF TOPIC: Mac Pro fried 2 system drives.

Sorry to post this in this forum but I find the other forums to be fairly unhelpful.
My Mac Pro tower fried my system drive (or it died) so I broke out my backup system drive. After that failed to mount I restarted using the option key. I found the system drive but after another restart, it too failed to mount. Disk Warrior says the drive is un-repairable now (the first drive can not be found by DW).
Anyone have any experience with this kind of problem or know what could possibly cause this? My DVD drive (the stock superdrive) is naffed as well as has not been able to play a DVD properly in ages. Not sure if it's related but when I would insert a DVD the DVD player window would be distorted and the image scrambled, then my computer would freeze.
Again, sorry to post this here but I always find FCP users more knowledgeable and helpful.

I sent the drive to my buddy's place. He ran the check. He also made me a clone of his system drive, which I will clone again using my laptop (the DVD on that was crushed on a trip) and try trouble shooting with that. I'm worried it's a power supply problem that is killing my drives.

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