Does formatting a HD stress it very much?

[Special K]

Just wondering...

 

[Vegito]

Probably not as much as running those spinrite or disk doctors on it...

 

[agentK]

nah...i dont think anyone formats that often really...

 

[dkozloski]

All you are doing is reading and writing to it which is what it is designed to do. If you can't do that what the hell good is it?

 

[majewski9]

No I think formatting is healthy for a disk! I like to format every time my OS goes to crap. I also think that fromatting halps get rid of bad clusters.

 

[Special K]

So does defraging stress a HD? I thought all a defrag was was read/writes just like any other. What about surface scans?

 

[DimZiE]

format stressing your HD.... don't think so..

HDTach..that's stressing your HDD

 

[TunaBoo]

Someone the other day claimd they formated 3 times a day.

Excess formatting WILL shorten the life of your computer. Each cluster can only be read/written to so many times before they are much morel ikely to get errors. Why over stress?

 

[aircooled]

It's not like a needle on a record (remember records?). it's just 1's and zero's using magnetic energy from a head that "floats" over the disk. The wear is on the bearing of the hard drive. Everytime it spins, it creates friction which creates wear. Unless you have a faulty hard drive, formatting it should do no damage to the platter.