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Does formatting a HD stress it very much?

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