tpb wrote:
Is there a possibility that the security update is killing drives?
It's probably just coincidence. In my experience, hard drives are the twitchiest part of a PC. The engineering on them has come a
long way over the years, but they're just about the only moving mechanical part left inside a PC (other than the CD/DVD drive). You've got bearings that can wear out, motors for both the platters and the arm that can fail or have subtle problems, and a stationary read/write head sitting extremely close to that fast-moving platter -- if the two actually touch the drive is probably scarred for life. There are lots of ways for a drive to die.
In my case, I hadn't rebooted my machine for some time before the update (I tend to keep my computers running 24/7), and the reboot is probably what revealed that my drive had gone bad, not the update itself. It's true that this particular machine was only a year old, and most of my hard drives have lasted
far longer than a year, but I've had several drives die untimely deaths before...
Just another reason to keep good backups!!!
--John