Is using reset button on PC bad for HDD?

[Darell3]

Ive come acroos a couple of articles of people saying crashes/pc reset button can cause HDD to fail, and im kind of confused. When i try to get stable OC on my CPU i tend to use the PC reset button a lot. So im asking today is, using PC reset button will it cause my HDD to fail in the future or maybe wreck it?

 

Thanks,

~Darell3

[joelthezombie15]

From what i have heard its only if its doing a read/write it can mess up some files. but i havent experienced this.

[Tr3vor]

it isn't physically bad for the drive, but it will interrupt read/write cycles, so It can corrupt files. If you need to reset your computer make sure that the HDD light is not active.

[Jumanous]

In 1989 when hard drives had to park it was bad physically... Which is why people still freak out about it. But yea.. What tr3vor said.

[Tr3vor]

In 1989 when hard drives had to park it was bad physically... Which is why people still freak out about it. But yea.. What tr3vor said.

 

well you could hit the reset button with an MFM hard drive, as long as you didn't power it completely down. If the disk is still rotating at a good speed, the heads won't make contact with the platter, so you can still do your ctrl+alt+del-ing without worry.

 

one thing with older hard drives though, if you turn off the power, wait for the disk to come to a complete halt before starting it back up again.

[Snickerzz]

In 1989 when hard drives had to park it was bad physically... Which is why people still freak out about it. But yea.. What tr3vor said.

what do you mean had to park it o.o

[LogicalDrm]

what do you mean had to park it o.o

 

Completely stop. I've had only one hdd failure and it's manufacturing error. So you most likely win in lottery than loose you drive because of reseting.

[Tr3vor]

When they say park, the drive didn't automatically park its heads in the "landing zone", the designated area where the heads were to land when the drive was stopped. You had to run a program called a parking utility and it moved the heads to the landing zone. if you didn't do this, the heads would land in the data area of the disk, and possibly damaging your data. Later MFM drives and all IDE drives automatically park the heads.

One of the issues with old drives that have the heads park on the disk is sticktion, which is when the heads themselves become adhered to the platter, causing the drive to not spin up...