&quot;Archive&quot; drives are not meant for day to day use - that&#x27;s why they are called &quot;Archive&quot; (as in, write-mostly-once-read-occasionally). They use SMR layout, which is just as fast for writing, but much slower for rewriting.<p>That said, if it is returning corrupted data, you should check the memory chips in your computer (If you can do a non-UEFI boot, an Ubuntu live disk has a memory test utility you can use).<p>Even if the on-disk data is corrupted, the drive should detect that and return an error and no data, rather than corrupted data.