Effects of Reformating a Hard Drive Continuously
Can formatting a computer very frequently, do damage to any physical components?
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Diagnosis of Common Misconceptions on Hard Disk Drive (Part 1)
1. Frequent disk formatting hard drive will decrease its longevity
The bottom line is: format a hard drive will not shorten its lifespan. Most people tend to accept a false theory that frequent disk formatting will decrease the longevity of hard drive. Formatting is not the cause of HDD failure. The slider (read/write head) does not touch the platters in the formatting process. Thus there's no chance of physical damage on the HDD during formatting. On the other hand, shaking a hard drive when it's still working is the real cause in many HDD failure cases. All in all, formatting has nothing to do with the physical damage on HDD. You may even format a hard drive 20 times a day and it wouldn't shorten its lifespan.
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Diagnosis of Common Misconceptions on Hard Disk Drive (Part 1)
1. Frequent disk formatting hard drive will decrease its longevity
The bottom line is: format a hard drive will not shorten its lifespan. Most people tend to accept a false theory that frequent disk formatting will decrease the longevity of hard drive. Formatting is not the cause of HDD failure. The slider (read/write head) does not touch the platters in the formatting process. Thus there's no chance of physical damage on the HDD during formatting. On the other hand, shaking a hard drive when it's still working is the real cause in many HDD failure cases. All in all, formatting has nothing to do with the physical damage on HDD. You may even format a hard drive 20 times a day and it wouldn't shorten its lifespan.
Same goes with SSD's? Because I tend to format them both completely, then install windows on one and fill them up to around 70% each with games and programs etc! Will that 70% to 0% to again 70% cause any damage, or is it all good to do even everyday?
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Kinda like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mME9VLT7-xw 2:35 minute
What I do is, I press the delete option you see to delete partition on each drive (I have 3 drives, 2 SSD's, 1HDD) and then press the format option which you again see to format all 3 of them until i have a total of 3 unallocated spaces! then i choose the SSD i want my OS on and then I fill both SSD's up to 70% for example (500GB each)! Is that ok to do even every day?
Sorry that I am asking so specifically, is just that I don't want any missunderstanding that could destroy 2, 500GB SSD's and another TB HDD! 
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Let's just say I suffer from OCD, and I always have the feeling that my PC is infected with viruses and other bad programs etc. So if I dont do any damage to my hardware with formatting, I can do it every time I'm worried ^.^
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Why sir? I've never experienced conflicts or anything when I had them both plugged in!
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