Can SSD Kill Other Drives - Hard Drive Failed SMART Error ?
Feb 4, 2012
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
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Oct 10, 2012
I joined here recently and i am more or less a novice at this.I recent got this SMART error and windows told me that my hard drive might fail. After searching online,, i was suggest to download HDDscan .After using it, it shows me this
HDDScan S.M.A.R.T. Report
Model: TOSHIBA MK6476GSX
Firmware: GS001C
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'Technical information
*** STOP: 0x000000F4 (0x0000000000000003, 0xFFFFFA8004C1D260, 0xFFFFFA8004C1D498, 0xFFFFF8000130DDA0)'
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