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Will copying 300 GB from one hard drive to another kill it?

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gjehle:
Keep that hard drive cool. Make sure you have adequate cooling in your machine.
-Nighted (May 08, 2007, 03:13 AM)
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i can only second that.

the only thing i could think off that might have caused extra stress to your drive was that your data was very fragmented and your IO scheduler was doing a not so decent job ;-)
that might cause more vibrations over a prolonged time which could loosen up accumulated dust which in return would cause scratches all over your disk.

this is also _the_ reason to get a new laptop harddrive after you dropped your laptop ;-)
it's not so much the fall and sudden stop that damages the (switched off) laptop, but the dust that gets loose inside the disk.

superboyac:
True.  I try keeping my hard drives as cool as possible.  It's an old computer, and when I first built it, I didn't give cooling that much attention, so there are certain things I'm physically limited to in the case.  The next computer I build will have a much greater emphasis on cooling.  So far, it's handles itself pretty well.  But I've had two hard drives crash in it over the years, so who knows what that was due to.  Well, one of them was those IBM DeathStars, and the other just happed recently.

PS, I just transferred my data last night, and it seemed to go without a problem.  Thanks.

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