QUOTE(springfall @ Apr 5 2011, 01:19 AM)
it depends u know i'm using lala land's for 4 years ardy soo far 2 updates will wreck havoc but still there is always some hidden danger lurking when u update.. lets say u accidentaly update when ur assigment due 2morrow. then sure die.. probability is low but it do happen.
if formatting 0 n 1 as u say, do explain the wear n tear on disk drives, juz visit any office with it service man reformatting comps every time he stumbles a prob. u can c that it will contribute to a mountain of HDD written fail unknown issue. and itz not seagate, samsung wd tosh u name it.. all will wear even without gaming, so long u exceed, ur hdd may unexpectedly fail. gaming? do offices do gaming.
if u wan further explanation, go buy 1 portable fan, no a notebook cooler from CM will even tell u that itz fan has a life cycle of how many spins/hours
all machines will fail and the disks arnt perfect. machine head accidentally hitting the disk cause bad sectors are inevitable. u think reformatting destroys bad sectors? no way.. permanent damage is done deal. no recovery options.go read HHD life cycle.
as mention ssd u can reformat crazy amount of times is that the wear level is soo low that even u keep reformatting n writting stuff u will hav 2 w8 till u r 50+ years old be4 u c damage.
plz install a software n check ur current hhd wear level, bad sectors corrupted sectors etc
Haha I'm not going to comment too much more about pirated windows, but suffice it to say, "my friends" have never ran into any update problems, of that I am sure.
Dont get me wrong I agree with you, constant read or write does mess up HD, and formatting doesn't recover bad sectors. I'm just saying that formatting the hard drive doesn't do any more damage than normal everyday use. Or at least it doesn't in my experience.
Unfortunately I'm still in school so I can't comment on office use. But heat definitely does make an issue on hard drives, like all computer components.
Regardless, this is off topic. Doing a clean format 5, 10 times isn't going to hurt your hard drive in the long term. A clean format will probably solve all your hibernate / startup issues. Try it