Can a bad USB cable cause I/O errors?

[junfan]

I have a Seagate 5TB USB 3.0 external drive, recently I was getting some I/O errors, a few times I got an 1117 error.

I swapped out the cable, changed USB ports, and swapped out the power adapter and now everything seems to be working perfectly. It completely passed a full error scan in HD Tune Pro, as well as error scans in SeaTools. SMART reports all fine, except for some high temps.

I've moved everything off that I wasn't comfortable losing.

Should I trust the tests? Has anyone ever seen I/O errors with a bad cable or possibly a bad USB port?

 

[DrLobotomy]

You have a cat or small dog or infant that likes chewing on cables? Or maybe it just broke. Since you went and changed out 3 different things at once you will never know.

Put back the old cable now and test again. Then change the port back. See which one throws the errors.

Shwing!!!!

 

[junfan]

You have a cat or small dog or infant that likes chewing on cables? Or maybe it just broke. Since you went and changed out 3 different things at once you will never know.

Put back the old cable now and test again. Then change the port back. See which one throws the errors.

Shwing!!!!

Thanks for the reply, I thought about doing that, but I was concerned that trying to recreate the error would damage the drive.

 

[DrLobotomy]

Thanks for the reply, I thought about doing that, but I was concerned that trying to recreate the error would damage the drive.

Probably not. Just damage the data going thru the port and down the wire.

 

[AlphaFox]

I have a 5tb seagate USB3 drive and it started hanging when I went to write to it. Can still read to it, had to replace it.