Break a HD?

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Downloader999

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I have these programs DVD Decrypter/DVD Shrink which allow me to burn DVDs but first I have to copy the entire DVD to my hard drive (7gb), shrink it to a different, smaller file (4gb) before I can burn it. So to copy 1 DVD it takes up, temporarily, 11GB! Of course I can delete these files afterwards but I was wondering if doing this over and over will ruin my hard drive because of the mechanical parts moving (head, disc, etc...). Could these ware out by the massive transfer of date? (this is an internal laptop hard drive...does that make a difference??) Any thoughts on this would be appreciated, thanx alot!!
 
i've put my desktop hard drive thru the worst pain. stuff is constantly being deleted (huge folders with 10-20 gigs worth of files) over and over again. its been 5 years and its working fine.
 
heh, all that moving of the heads is what the hdd is supposed to do! it should be able to go for thousands of hours doing that straight. HDD manufacturers used to put a MTBF rating on their drives, meaning Mean Time Between Failures. basically how long the drive can last. its usually around 500,000 hours straight, you do the math ;)
 
Well yes, you should worry about backing them upp.. Not the one you are currently burning... but dont put an entire library unbackedup on the drive... There is ALWAYS a chance.
 
Trizoy said:
Well yes, you should worry about backing them upp.. Not the one you are currently burning... but dont put an entire library unbackedup on the drive... There is ALWAYS a chance.
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lol happened to me once :)
 
entire lifespan i only crashed 2 hardrives, that is when i choose to continue using the same drive over and over, now whenever i upgrade hardrive i retire the older ones as BACKUP storage unplugged only on when needed :D just hope the RAPTORS dont fail me.
 
never EVER trust a hard drive.......EVER. You can garuntee it will die when youve just got everything customised the way you want it, all the codecs installed in MP, all your favourites in the list again, all your utilities installed, all your drives partitioned..... and BANG its all gone, garunteed to be that time when ti would be most awkward to fix aswell, like when your going on holiday or something.
 
dragon2309 said:
never EVER trust a hard drive.......EVER. You can garuntee it will die when youve just got everything customised the way you want it, all the codecs installed in MP, all your favourites in the list again, all your utilities installed, all your drives partitioned..... and BANG its all gone, garunteed to be that time when ti would be most awkward to fix aswell, like when your going on holiday or something.
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true, you just described same thing that happend to me :)
 
thats why i save all the up to date files and slipstream them into my os cd and customize my own os. :D saves me hours of reinstallations.
 
Of course I can delete these files afterwards but I was wondering if doing this over and over will ruin my hard drive because of the mechanical parts moving (head, disc, etc...).
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The disc will be moving regardless so you might as well have it move for something useful :) I ghost my machine once every day or two and my drives are good
 
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