>I imagine hard drives could also have bad capacitors but I haven't heard of that happening. That's very unlikely. If you're thinking of the "capacitor plague

>I imagine hard drives could also have bad capacitors but I haven't heard of that happening. That's very unlikely. If you're thinking of the "capacitor plague" of the 2000s, that only affected electrolytic capacitors, since it was caused by the Chinese poorly copying the formula for capacitor electrolyte. I don't believe hard drives used electrolytic capacitors in that time period, simply due to their size, though I could be wrong.