Steam DESTROYS HARD DISC!

[Ognerez]

For several years already steam has been destroying my hard discs. I changed the disc to a new one and yet steam keeps doing it! (both disks are ST2000DM008-2UB102)
After steam game is being run or even an update being installed, the steam app corrupts my hard drive and it starts lagging with mistakes, then can't find steam games or anything else on it,
I run chkdsk D: /F /R /X /B , it fixes the disc and then after steam is run again it corrupts it again. Other games (for example, GOG platform) don't destroy the disc and run smoothly. What happened to steam?
I saw same discussion from 2019 and wanted to post there, but the thread was closed so I have to open a new one. But it is the still same old mistake that resides unsolved.

[Callahan420]

Is this an external drive?

[Iceira]

Take it up with the Brand harddisk support.
write here will not fix a maybe start to show signs of burnout disk.
you talk about a disk from 2019 maybe thats 5 years ago, and we have no clue if that is the problem and how much it has been used. and if disk is a cheap Brand or a quality Brand thats has been seen to have way longer lifecycle , yes such is made even decads ago.

also maybe why steam close your ticket/post.
and be happy we bother with a reply as users here.

[nullable]

I can't say after twenty years and multiple PC's and dozens of HDDs and SSDs that I've even heard of this.

It does raise questions about what HDDs you're running/have been affected. This is an extremely niche issue, or it falls under "correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation".

[nullable]

Possible. Although even brand name drives fail, and someone has terribly bad luck too. What you're saying is perfectly plausible, just not the only possibility either. More info would be nice.

[nullable]

Originally posted by Alice Liddell:

Also, we should think if it was an SSD, that these have a limited amount of writes.

I've been running SSDs for over ten years, and the fuss over limited writes is really a non-issue. Both HDDs and SSDs can wear out in their own ways, a normal consumer typically won't be able to wear out a drive through normal use, including Steam. Although some users have bad luck with faulty drives.

So sure if the OP was running Steam and also running running intense I/O on the SSD 24/7 for a couple of years then maybe they could hit write limits on a low end SSD. My guess is that isn't OP's circumstance though.

Originally posted by Alice Liddell:

I seen a forum post years ago on Reddit about the old Samsung SSD's (not the M.2) failing after about 3 - 6 months.

Everyone has a story, exception, edge case. One story doesn't project onto all other drives. My story is I've been running Samsung SATA drives for a number of years in my home PCs. And in 2016 we upgraded our developer machines at work to run some Samsung SATA SSD's and they were all still running fine as of a few weeks ago (we just replaced those machines).

So yeah someone had a bad experience. And someone else had like twenty good experiences.