Can SSD Kill other drives ? Hard drive failed SMART Error !


  1. Posts : 18
    win 7
       #1

    Can SSD Kill other drives ? Hard drive failed SMART Error !


    Hello

    I upgrade my pc with SSD everything seem to go fine but 2 of my 2TB drive giving me a Smart error now. i wonder if SSD has anything to do with Drives failing. My theory is that.

    SSD runs on a flash based chip ... it is very stable but mean time it has huge access point of data that why it is fast. The reason i am thinking that SSD is killing my other drives is because my setup is a Media center. Software such as windows media center and media browser keep accessing my 2 TB Hitachi drive for movies, TV show and so on .. SSD in my opinion is running other drive to max point of spin and read/write in same time. which could caused these drive either over heat or over used that is just a theroy of mine


    MY Setup :
    Media center pc with 4 2TB Hard drive Hitachi and 1 60GB SSD drive

    Error Message:
    Smart error bad backup and replace



    Thank you
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  2. Posts : 26,863
    Windows 11 Pro
       #2

    Ther's not a chance that an SSD caused that. Really, what is a mechanical hard drive supposed to do? They spin up and read/write data. A Mechaninal hard drive would be reading/writing more if the OS was installed on it. That is constant.
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  3. Posts : 5,941
    Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers
       #3

    Hi there
    Mechanical devices can and DO fail at times -- not too frequently fortunately.

    I suggest you copy the data on this drive to another one before it failks completely.

    You could after copying the data perform a complete re-format --- suggest one that writes on EVERY sector -- there's a few of these "secure erase" programs out there which you can download for nothing.

    This *might* fix a temporary error on the drive -- but if the hardware is really defective you'll have to replace it.

    The SSD won't damage a HDD in any way whatsoever.

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  4. Posts : 18
    win 7
    Thread Starter
       #4

    Hello ,

    Issue resolved i am RMAing my drives now

    Thank you
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