Hi,
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Fleury<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> We all have favorite tunes and albums, which we access more frequently
> from external USB, RAID or internal drives. Can frequent access of the
> same file result in "wear", ie. corruption of the file at some level
> audible in playback? I have not experienced this yet, and don't even
> know if it is physically possible. But I get in little musical ruts, as
> do we all, and might listen to the same track 2-3 times a day for a few
> days if it sticks in my head. I am finishing a huge rip project, 430
> CD's to two IOMEGA Ego 250 usb drives (one off site for backup safety
> sake). The drives are quite zippy, and stream flacs with no problem. My
> computer savvy, however, comes to a screeching halt confronted with the
> black box that is my hard drive (or bright red box, for the Ego's!). Oh
> mighty wizards of Geekdom, hear my plea - does repeated access of the
> same physical address on an internal or external hard drive result in
> uneven wear or file corruption, analogous to the way repeated playing
> of vinyl tracks eventually degrades their sonic quality?
In a word, no.
Hard disks can fail, and get corrupted also, but I doubt that accessing the
same data over and again would exacerbate this. It'd likely be cached by the
operating system anyway.
Fret about something else :)
Andy
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