Frequent formatting damages HDD ?

[ironfreak]

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He is that guy Peter Petrelli in Heroes right ????? (spelled correctly?)

 

[Raccoon]

Formatting will likely damage your disk in the sense that it will wear out faster. The reasons are obvious - anything that makes it thrash around will cause wearing... formatting, installing OS, programs, etc., etc.

It doesn't matter how many times u format, generally PATA HDDS doesn't last long. 4yrs is very long in ur case.

Why dont PATA discs last long?? Whats more you get 5 year warranty on HDDs now (at least on Seagate, dont know about others). They wont give such a long warranty unless they are confident about the life of their product!

An HDD should last much longer than 4 years... provided you use it "sensibly".

 

[realdan]

and i have pata hdd going bad just letting it sit around in some cabinets..these things once used need to be up and running occasionally otherwise it might get rusty and lazy and failed to wake up from its slumber..
excess of anything can be bad even if normal doses do you good..

 

[saqib_khan]

I m using my PATA HDD for more then 8 years & still not a single bad sector. It's samsung, BTW.

Man, these electronic things work on luck

 

[realdan]

yeah if everyone is lucky like it is in your particular case..the manufacturer would be struggling to survive

 

[Raccoon]

No dude... for HDDs especially that cannot apply. Most people rapidly run out of space, apps and OS rapidly keeps getting bigger and bigger. Even if HDDs last forever, there will always be a big demand for new ones.

Also, HDDs need to be very reliable... imagine loosing very important data! You guys make it sound that a lower HDD life is the norm! It should be the other way around... most HDDs should last (many/most do) well over 5 years... those that dont have either been mishandled or are not upto the mark in quality.

 

[clmlbx]

well I don't think so

I format every 2-2.1/2 months atleast

this is sata . I used to do samething with my last pata drive . used around 7-8 years without any problem or bad sector . and selled it in same way .perfect working conditions

 

[ironfreak]

Im not sure if there's real HDD problem. I've this external USB case and I connect PATA hard disk in it. It works sooooooooo slow... even slower than my flash drive while copying... and if I cancel copying in between, the system hangs and I have to format that HDD.. the window never opens no matter what I do.. all the data gets corrupt... is this hard disk problem or because I use that USB thing ????