Will this hurt my HDD ?

Greetings,
Long time follower, 1st time poster here.
So, I'm working from home and part of that work is to continuously download large files to my HDD, process the data, upload the processed files, then deleting files from my HDD.
My question is: will this continuous downloading/deleting of large amounts of data wear out my HDD before its time ?
TIA for any thoughts.

Bad Joss wrote:
Greetings,
Long time follower, 1st time poster here.
So, I'm working from home and part of that work is to continuously download large files to my HDD, process the data, upload the processed files, then deleting files from my HDD.
My question is: will this continuous downloading/deleting of large amounts of data wear out my HDD before its time ?
TIA for any thoughts.
There are just so many variables that have an impact on an answer to your question. And remember when you delete data from your hard drive, you're not really deleting it, you're deleting the info on the drive that tells the computer where the data is located. The only exception to that is when you do a secure delete. Heat has deleterious effects on hard drives, so if the fan fails on your MBP, you can be reducing the life.
Modern hard drives are pretty robust. What you're doing isn't really stressful. A RAID drive in a server is running 24/7 with lots of data. Even then, the average failure rate is very low.
So, your drive will last anywhere from a few minutes to 100 years. What you're doing has no impact on the failure rate, because it's not all that stressful.
BTW, I use a 1.5TB external hard drive to backup my computer along with my iTunes collection (around 750GB) using Time Machine. That drive runs every hour doing backups. That drive is over 18 months old, no issues.
Don't worry about it.

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