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  • My question is about choosing Linux distribution that don't cause hardware errors. Here is my problem, I have Western Digital 500 hard drive, and first Linux I use it was Ubuntu 9.04 and everything was ok, that I move to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. After a while the Diagnostic Tool show me that HD has bad sectors. The store that I bought my computer replace the hard drive. I install Ubuntu 10.04, and after 4-5 mouths the Diagnostic Tool show me bad sectors. My HD is still on warranty and they again will replace it but, I must replace the Linux Distribution, this is too much for my nerves. Someone can give me explanation to which distro to move. My experience with Linux is: openSuse 10.02 (some problems with flash drivers) Ubuntu 9.04 and Ubuntu 10.04.

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    The hardware problems could not have been caused by your Linux distribution. It seems that you're just very unlucky with hard drives, or you are mishandling them (vibration or mechanical stress could damage the hard drive surface).

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I seriously doubt it that any Linux distribution, let alone a popular one that is used by millions of people can cause bad sectors on the hard disk. More so, same OS components like kernel and file system modules are shared by many Linux distributions. It can be just bad coincidence or there might be something else wrong with your system - I had problems with hard disks caused by faulty motherboard before.

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It's unlikely that your OS is causing the failures. As disks increase in size and data density, the likelihood of encountering a bad sector is increasing. I would expect a new disk to see bad sectors as time went on. More likely, any other distros you've used that didn't report failures were simply not reporting them, or didn't even detect them (silent failures). Also, I'd check with your warranty repair -- you might be getting refurbished units that have filled their bad sector defect tables already. Read up on using http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/man/smartctl.8.html to diagnose the problems on your disk. (Although research has proven that not all disk problems are reported by SMART, it's still a good place to start.)

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