Would frequently copying back and forth into the internal and external hard drive do any damage?

[DerGillster]

Okay so I wish to get myself a cheap internal hard drive for my PC being around 500 GB along with an external hard drive being around 5 TB. The idea is that I would use the smaller HDD as a placeholder for programs and video games while the external hard drive would serve as storage for movies and tv shows.

Whenever I would want watch a movie or a show, I would copy a file from the external HDD to the internal one. The idea is that I wouldn't use my external HDD while watching a movie so my external hard drive would use barely any power. I'm just concerned if frequent copying back and forth would do any damage. Will anything happen to either drive at all?

 

[USAFRet]

Not in the least.

 

[DerGillster]

What do you mean "not in the least"? Not in the least bit of damage? I would like for your answer to be a couple sentences longer for detail.

 

[USAFRet]

What do you mean "not in the least"? Not in the least bit of damage? I would like for your answer to be a couple sentences longer for detail.

That level of data moving back and forth will not harm the drives in any way.
If you were churning the drive at 100%, 24/7, then yes....it would presumably 'die' faster.

A lot of big data centers use consumer grade drives in their racks. 10's of thousands. Presumably, these drives are running a lot.
Except for a specific model or two, they don't really die that fast.

See this report from BackBlaze:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-faq/
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/