HDD failures

[Brumgav]

Hi,

I’ve started mining Monero recently on an old desktop PC which turned out to be really slow, however what was weird is that after a few days my HDD failed so I just assumed oh well it’s old so I found another one I had stored from about 10 years ago and reinstalled windows on that and set it mining again. Few days later that failed too so so found another from an old broken laptop and reinstalled windows on that, also brought new motherboard and cpu and new PSU and started it mining again, but about a day later this HDD is setting to file too.

Is this just coincidence? Or does GPU mining put some pressure on the HDD.

Thanks in advance

Gavin

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[nc50lc]

Large pagefile does, but with HDD, maybe not that much of a strain.
Looking at your statement, it must be the Power Supply that you're using, but not the PSU itself, but the Sata Power cables.
Most of the sata HDD generate a false bad sectors when fed by incomplete voltage, look at your sata power connector, there must be an orange wire among the black, yellow and red wire.
If there isn't, that must be the issue.
You can recover those broken HDD by doing a Write-ZERO operation, not by formatting the drive.

[Maveth13]

You should give more details about the problem, the HDD and the PSU.

Some people managed with low rpm hdd shitdrives, so most probably your problem is with your psu. If not, may all those old hdds are just defective already. Seriously, 10 years? Don't be cheap on hard drives, buy an SSD.

[Brumgav]

Thanks for the replies.

It’s my first time at mining hence just trying on some pieces of hardware I have laying around. After proof of concept  I decided to improve the hardware so I brought the new motherboard and a new graphics card (Radeon HD7870). With the first two HDD failing I assumed it was just conincidence but when the third happened I decided to ask on here if mining caused these HDD problems. So thanks for the information.

I don’t think the SATA power cables are the fault as I’ve used the new ones supplied with the motherboard so now the fault occurred with the older power connectors and the newer ones too. I will visually inspect them just to be sure they match your description.

I first started mining on an old Pc with 250w PSU but when I got the new graphics card it was clear it needed a new PSU so I got a Corsair 550W PSU.

I’ll probably buy a New HDD no that I know mining doesn’t have a damaging effect on HDD

Thanks

Gavin