Does dying HDD cause ram instabilities?

[iiTzSander]

So, to better understand what I'm talking about; recently my HDD kicked it's feet up and died on me, and every since then I've been able to run the ram in 3600Mhz as advertised by the RAM maker. While the HDD was working, I couldn't do any kind of overclocking at all, even if it was set to 3200Mhz for an example, cause it would crash the PC, I first assumed it was the GPU that could be dying, so I did a few more tests with an old gpu (970) and even then it would crash, tested out the ram without the XMP (whatever it is called for AMD platform) on default settings, PC may be crashed once during the time. And after my HDD died on my, I've been able to run the PC just fine with ram overclock (advertised speed at 3600Mhz), hasn't crashed on me once.

 

An individual told me that and I quote "dying storage will cause instability, even if the OS isn't on that drive. something to do with how it uses caching" when I was speaking about the same issue on the said discord

[DoctorNick]

6 minutes ago, iiTzSander said:

So, to better understand what I'm talking about; recently my HDD kicked it's feet up and died on me, and every since then I've been able to run the ram in 3600Mhz as advertised by the RAM maker. While the HDD was working, I couldn't do any kind of overclocking at all, even if it was set to 3200Mhz for an example, cause it would crash the PC, I first assumed it was the GPU that could be dying, so I did a few more tests with an old gpu (970) and even then it would crash, tested out the ram without the XMP (whatever it is called for AMD platform) on default settings, PC may be crashed once during the time. And after my HDD died on my, I've been able to run the PC just fine with ram overclock (advertised speed at 3600Mhz), hasn't crashed on me once.

 

An individual told me that and I quote "dying storage will cause instability, even if the OS isn't on that drive. something to do with how it uses caching" when I was speaking about the same issue on the said discord

Yes I once fixed a pc with an old SSD. After removing the SSD the PC could boot. Initially I thought i was a PSU issue, because it would reset the PC, even before boot splash screen. So it's possible it would affect stability.

[Average Nerd]

Just now, DoctorNick said:

So it's possible it would affect stability.

From what I've heard, a failing or full boot drive can indeed cause instability.

[DoctorNick]

Just now, Average Nerd said:

From what I've heard, a failing or full boot drive can indeed cause instability.

I was meant to say memory instability. Normally this isn't the case though. My best guess is that the memory was moved to other slots doing troubleshooting. 

[iiTzSander]

8 minutes ago, Average Nerd said:

From what I've heard, a failing or full boot drive can indeed cause instability.

The thing is, the HDD wasn't even the boot driver, the boot driver was my SSD.

[iiTzSander]

13 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

I was meant to say memory instability. Normally this isn't the case though. My best guess is that the memory was moved to other slots doing troubleshooting. 

That makes more sense, cause if I knew about this being the problem months ago, I could have backed up all of my recordings that were lost thanks to not knowing about it beforehand. It is what it is, now that I know about it, I can do it before it happens in the future..