New hard drives keep failing?

Hi guys,
A few months ago I decided to upgrade my Mac with a couple of new hard drives. I replaced the optical bay with a data doubler and placed a 1TB Toshiba HDD in it. In the primary bay I put in a 250GB Samsung 840 SSD. It seemed to work really well at first, I had all my media on the HDD and my apps on the SSD. But soon I noticed that when listening to music it would skip like a scratched CD at random points, if I went back to that point it wouldn't skip at the same place, completely random. Same thing with video, but the visuals would pause and lag when the audio skipped. Also, sometimes it would freeze with apps like word processing and iphoto, showing the spinning wheel. Eventually, after reformating both drives, updating the SSD firmware, doubling the RAM and trying countless other tweaks like not turning the hard drives off when not needed, all to no avail, I ran S.M.A.R.T utility and found that the HDD had 56 reallocated bad sectors. I took the HDD back and got a replacement. Ran the utility again and had no bad sectors. But soon the issue with media came back and has been getting worse and worse. Ran the utility again and the new HDD now has 831 bad sectors. I've sent it off for another replacement, but I am worried that the same problem will keep reoccuring. The utility says that there is absolutely nothing wrong the SSD. I am wondering what you guys think is causing this? and if I should replace the SSD in case it is faulty (despite the utility saying otherwise) and its causing the HDD to develop the bad sectors and fail? Hopefully someone out there can help me with this as I am at my wits end. I have an MBP7 mid 2010 13 inch running Mavericks. 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4GB RAM (I doubled it to 8GB, but returned the new RAM after noticing no change.)
Many thanks in advance,
Jasper.

JasperThaddeus
I replaced the optical bay with a data doubler and placed a 1TB Toshiba HDD in it. In the primary bay I put in a 250GB Samsung 840 SSD
Simplify things, stick the SSD in the "front seat"
stick the slow HD in the optibay.
JasperThaddeus
then does it make any sense for the HDD to be developing bad sectors so rapidly?
Yes, its technically called "infant HD mortality", .....or as the pros call it "a DUD".

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