__/ [ Meat Plow ] on Sunday 10 September 2006 19:09 \__
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 11:03:11 -0700, ?CoffeehouseSchmuck? Has Frothed:
>
>> I own a TIVO
>>
>> i am constantly recording programs and then Erasing them.............tivo
>> was made for that
>>
>> I have Many Distros of Linux
>>
>> does it harm my hard drive on my computer if i am changing Distros within
>> a short period of time
>> Are PC Hard drives as strong as a Tivo HD?
>>
>> One PC has gone from
>> Win98-->Xp-->Xp/Suse10.0 dual boot-->Fedora Core 5-->Ubuntu--> Suse 10.0
>> without Xp
>
> Won't hurt it a bit.
Your hard-drive knows nothing about operating systems. It has interfaces for
read and write operations, as well as additional functions for, e.g.
rotation speed. As your hard-drive is working much of the time anyway, it
will not be aware, at least at a physical level, of what gets installed.
Integrity of the actual data (e.g. MBR) is another matter altogether and it
depends on the quality of your software (e.g. Windows Vista eliminates MBR's
and rewrites them). Just make sure you stick to good brands such as Seagate
if you want to prevent wear (bad sectors).
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