HDD health partitioning question

[ch4sethe5un]

I just got a 1TB HDD to replace a failing one that was primarily used to backup old information from phones, older PCs, etc.

I was just wondering, would it be bad for the HDD health if I added a partition that was dedicated to application installs considering the type of data that will be on the other partition. Will having an active partition (applications) risk the more passive partitions (backup data) on the same HDD? Will it cause the total health of the HDD to be shorter or is the difference negligible?

Any help is appreciated :]

 

[Andorel]

how many partition does your HDD has for the moment?

 

[ch4sethe5un]

how many partition does your HDD has for the moment?

The failing one has just one filled with backed up data. The new one has none yet but I was hoping to make it half a backup partition and the other half a installation partition for applications.

 

[Andorel]

I just got a 1TB HDD to replace a failing one that was primarily used to backup old information from phones, older PCs, etc.

I was just wondering, would it be bad for the HDD health if I added a partition that was dedicated to application installs considering the type of data that will be on the other partition. Will having an active partition (applications) risk the more passive partitions (backup data) on the same HDD? Will it cause the total health of the HDD to be shorter or is the difference negligible?

Any help is appreciated :]

how many partition does your HDD has for the moment?

The failing one has just one filled with backed up data. The new one has none yet but I was hoping to make it half a backup partition and the other half a installation partition for applications.

What i think you should do in not make a 50 % to %50 disk partition in order to keep it healthy you should make the backup partition smaller! at least on my laptop thats how it used to be and still had healthy disk partitions .

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there ch4sethe5un,

In general, in case a given HDD is accessed frequently and it is reading and writing, it is normal that it will have shorter life span than a drive that is accessed once a week lets say(drive for storing only back ups).
Yet, the thing is that mechanical drives just fail, in many cases even without a warning. So, in both cases, you need to keep your most important data stored on at least two places. Also, I think that the difference would be negligible.

My suggestion would be to go ahead with that. You can keep an eye on the drive's health status with one of these: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/282651-32-best-diagnostic-testing-utility

Let me know in case you have some more questions,
D_Know_WD