Using torrents to download

[englishteacher]

Now I have Bad Blocks in my HD that 1 years old. I want to know whether using torrents could cause these Bad Blocks or not.

I assume this because now I regularly use torrent to download file to my HD that now has Bad Blocks, at least one time or twice a month. I've rarely used it before, I've other HD that now 6 years old that I rarely used torrents to download into it and I

never had any Bad Block before. When I'm running CHKDSK /r on the HD that now has Bad Blocks it found an error in file that was downloaded using torrents and in the middle of downloading using torrent few days ago, Windows gave me Error that my HD has Bad Block.

Could someone clarify this? Does using torrents could be the cause of the Bad Blocks or is it because my HD can't handle torrents operations (torrents write block by block) so it cause Bad Blocks and make my HD failed? Or the HD is already in process of failing whether I'm using torrents or not?

By the way,the files that was downloaded is safe, they don't have any Malware/Viruses.

[andsome]

I have searched Google, and it would appear that bad areas are caused by physical damage alone. I could find no evidence that corrupt downloads can cause such problems. Others will correct me if I am wrong. Why not search Google yourself for causes of bad areas on hard drives? :D

[-pops-]

To the best of my knowledge, as andsome says, bad blocks are physical errors on the drive and not usually caused by writing to the drive.

If possible you could copy all useful data from the drive and try to reformat - either a NTFS format or a low level format followed by reformatting in NTFS. This would confirm for you whether the bad blocks were caused by your bittorrent downloads.

If the drive is found to be faulty, investigate getting it replaced under the guarantee.

[englishteacher]

I have searched Google, and it would appear that bad areas are caused by physical damage alone. I could find no evidence that corrupt downloads can cause such problems. Others will correct me if I am wrong. Why not search Google yourself for causes of bad areas on hard drives? :D

When I was searching Google, i found a blog which someone said in it that he had Bad Blocks problem after using torrents. The downloads isn't corrupted too (both his and me). So I wonder whether using torrents make Bad Blocks because it seems that torrents making the HD heads working much harder and faster and it caused physical damage in the HD when writing/reading.

[Mike567]

Highly unlikely, normal download speed would be a max of 250Kbp's.

You do more damage not defragging and just creating generic word documents.

Its very rare that you will have disk damage from downloading unless your hdd is fragmented like hell!

[englishteacher]

Highly unlikely, normal download speed would be a max of 250Kbp's.

You do more damage not defragging and just creating generic word documents.

Its very rare that you will have disk damage from downloading unless your hdd is fragmented like hell!

Do you mean download speed max is 250KB/s or 250Kb/s, my torrent speed usually range from 1-30KB/s differs from torrents.

I'm also wondering why the "Raw Read Error Rate" Current Value (attribute 1 in SMART Result) decreased after I used torrent in my other HD yesterday, two-three days ago "Raw Read Error Rate" Current Value still 118 today it only 115 and have unstable Current Value sometimes it is lower, it could be like 109 and 114.

"Raw Read Error Rate" mean the HD having trouble accessing sectors,usually caused by age of the HD. But it seems different in my case.