Side Effects of Formatting Hard Drive
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I know people who reformat their hard drives once a month. This seems like a terrible idea to me. I've done some preliminary research and it seems like you can wear down the drive by reformatting and it seems like it's generally not the best practice. However, is it okay to reformat your hard drive…
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No. It causes no wear of any significance whatsoever. In classic (non-SSD) hard drives the magnetic material on a drive's platters might eventually "wear out" and lose it's ability to store magnetic charges after a ridiculously huge number of writes…
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