AV scans and HDD wear?

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whenever i do a full av scan, the hdd works and works and works (and,
yes, i do understand that this is obvious).

my question is this: if someone has their av set up to do a full scan
every night, how much wear does that cause on the moving
parts/mechanisms within the hdd itself?

thanks for your time.
 
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Pez D Spencer said:
whenever i do a full av scan, the hdd works and works and works
(and,
yes, i do understand that this is obvious).

my question is this: if someone has their av set up to do a
full scan
every night, how much wear does that cause on the moving
parts/mechanisms within the hdd itself?

thanks for your time.
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Negligible in the overall scheme of things. IME if/when a drive
goes bad it's the motor bearings, not the head movement
mechanism. And since the drive spins all the time ...

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The spindle wears out before the motor or its bearings. In all likelihood,
the interface (a component level series of parts) and the spindle will wear
out before the motor or its bearings.

The wear is no less intense than the pagefile if not less so for most PCs.

Daily scans should scan for malware and spyware in particular. Viruses are
not that invasive unless you let them be.
 
Pez D Spencer wrote:
|| whenever i do a full av scan, the hdd works and works and works (and,
|| yes, i do understand that this is obvious).
||
|| my question is this: if someone has their av set up to do a full
|| scan every night, how much wear does that cause on the moving
|| parts/mechanisms within the hdd itself?
||
|| thanks for your time.

The hard drive will probably be obsolete before it wears out.
 
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