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What can cause bad blocks in two different hard drives?

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What can cause bad blocks in two different hard drives?

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It’s not like you’re even comparing apples and apples, though. You mention that you’ve had the smaller hard drive for over a year, so I’d put my money on coincidence. Your new hard drive was clearly faulty, since SMART errors shoudn’t show up until very much later in its life. It would have failed no matter where you had installed it. That you just happened to install it in a computer that would later be used for an older drive that would develop problems of its own isn’t indicative of a problem with your computer. Also, with regard to donut: Software has nothing to do with bad blocks.

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