-2

I have a 5400 rpm hdd with 5 separate partition each containing a different distro like Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian, Manjaro. I find it really hard to settle down with just one distro. Will the hard disk die soon because of having so many partitions?

Thanks in advance guys...

XenoJax
  • 19
  • That is not a genuine question. Perhaps, I have 9 distros currently installed :-) – Sharad Gautam May 18 '15 at 18:22
  • I am sure the presence of how many partitions you want (you could also create 100 partitions) does not change anything for the HDD stress. But after some thoughts, I came to the idea, that it could (not sure, just a very vague idea!) make a difference if one partition, which represents a set of physical cylinders more or less, is used extensively while the others are not. That however could be positive because it reduces the ways the actuator has to move. But it increases the access on that specific set of cylinders. No idea, just sharing thoughts... – Byte Commander May 18 '15 at 20:04
  • possible duplicate of Is Ubuntu destroying my internal HDD? – Fabby May 18 '15 at 20:14

1 Answers1

3

The short answer is NO.

Why would you assume such a thing ?

Fabby
  • 34,259
solsTiCe
  • 9,231