Question Hard drive question

[danny009]

Should I worry about or at least be aware of that HDDs are lifespan cycles are wasted if data deleted or written? I know SSDs have limited writes long enough like 10 years, but what about good old hard drives? Should I download games often that these are on my hard drives? Or once they downloaded, should I avoid uninstalling often? Thanks!

 

[hotaru.hino]

Hard drives don't really have a limit on how many times you can write to it like SSDs. And even then, I don't think you'll find anyone here who's worn out an SSD under consumer use cases and assuming the firmware didn't have some write amplification bug.

In other words, something else is likely to fail on the drive long before the actual storage media.

 

[danny009]

Hard drives don't really have a limit on how many times you can write to it like SSDs. And even then, I don't think you'll find anyone here who's worn out an SSD under consumer use cases and assuming the firmware didn't have some write amplification bug.

In other words, something else is likely to fail on the drive long before the actual storage media.

Thanks dude!