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Can file transfers damage an HDD? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bigredsun on 2025-02-23 03:46:51.

I was doing a backup from my phone a Motorola Edge 40, which is terribly slow for USB transfers for some reason, to a backup 2TB WD blue hdd I had and it seemed odd that it was hanged @ 100% disk drive but ok I thought, maybe it's just because there are a lot of files (30gb) but after I while I noticed in the task manager that the transfer rate was 0 and usage was at a 100 still, so, canceled the process with no luck, rebooted and then the drive started to do the click of death.

Could it be possible that the transfer iteslf broke the drive?

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