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Could a controller contribute to drive failure?

djoye

djoye

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I know this may sound silly and I've NEVER seen this be an issue before, but has there ever been a case of a motherboard-based hard drive controller cause a drive to develop bad sectors or is that not even possible?

I'm just trying to rule this out because I have a user that has gone through several hard drives on a laptop and while I lean more towards the user being too rough with the laptop, I'll replace the motherboard if the controller has an actual chance of causing the problem.
 
I don't see how the controller could cause bad sectors. Bad sectors are a physical issue, meaning that the drive has difficulty reading data from a particular location (actual, physical spot) on a platter.

The kind of thing that can happen if someone beats up a laptop with a spinning hard drive.
 
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